‍Sandra Brazão is a Portuguese artist whose practice moves between painting, sound, and listening. With a background in music and formal training as a violinist, she approaches painting as resonance — a space where sound, memory and gesture can converge.

She began working in the visual arts in 2000 and later studied Illustration in Lisbon, followed by postgraduate studies in Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, where she researched into the relationship between sound and image and the role of deep listening as a way of amplifying the perception of space, time and memory.

Her practice has been shaped by extended periods spent in Mauritania, Mozambique, Ethiopia, and Gabon. These experiences have informed both her way of perceiving place and her approach to materials and processes. In Maputo, she began working with reclaimed wood, while in Libreville she developed research around soundscapes, memory, and the perception of place, using sound recordings and visual observations as starting points for new bodies of work.

Listening is central to her practice, not as an illustrative element, but as a way of attending to the world and allowing images to emerge. She approaches painting not simply as an image, but as a space of deep listening, where sound and memory persists and remain perceptually alive.

She currently lives and works in Brussels.