Ana Leal is a Brazilian visual artist based in São Paulo. Her practice unfolds through attention to absence, silence and the passing of time. Working across photography, video and mixed media, she creates delicate compositions from fragile materials and everyday traces. Her work lingers in subtle transformations, where memory, aging and invisibility become gestures of resistance and quiet persistence. In Encontro, she brings together ancestral portraits and clay from Pernambuco’s sertão, where earth and image merge to evoke memory, origin and belonging, treating material and archive as a shared vessel of fragile, enduring remembrance.