I am Ysa. A post-photographic artist whose lens is algorithms. Here I leave my manifesto — where technology and humanity intertwine.Each image is an attempt to translate what makes us human, one algorithm at a time. My Brazilian essence turns into lines of code, and my art, into thousands of pixels.

My name is Isabela Meggiolaro, also known as YSA. I am a Brazilian post-photographic artist who explores the intersections between memory, identity, and brasilidade through generative technology (AI) and digital experimentation.

Before becoming a visual artist, I explored many paths — often through entrepreneurship — and worked as a theater actress for over 17 years, studying at renowned Brazilian acting schools such as O Tablado. This embodied sensitivity still echoes through everything I create today. Being away from the stage felt like diving into deep waters with an anchor tied to my feet. Living without art is the deepest limbo an artist can inhabit.

So I had to reshape my creativity and channel it into new forms of expression.

Post-photography is a natural extension of that search — a continuation of expression. Not as a substitute for performance, but as its evolution: a way to reimagine presence, coded rather than choreographed, and give shape to my creativity and excessive thoughts.

My work employs an expanded documentary aesthetic focused on the human figure, transforming cultural diversity, saberes populares, and everyday Brazilian life into images that reinterpret, preserve, and celebrate a collective heritage.

The series Brasil Profundo exemplifies this practice: an artistic gesture that involves thematic research, the algorithmic construction of visual narratives, aesthetic curation, and technical refinement. Each image emerges from an authorial flow where sensitivity and technology intertwine. Every face, every feature, carries the intimacy of my emotions — expressing the complexity of the human through synthetic lenses and algorithms.

My camera is my thoughts, encoded to explore a sensitive and restless mind. The blockchain, in turn, becomes a living archive of these fragments: recording and perpetuating the beauty of what keeps me alive — transforming life into contemporary art, one data point at a time.