About The Artist

Yoanna Walden (b. 2003) creates photographic works in which elusive dreams, fragmented memories, and ambiguous inner visions intersect. Through the use of found objects and improvised props she constructs staged images that explore narratives of confinement, constraint, and isolation alongside capturing evocative natural scenes. Rooted in personal experience and shaped by a self-directed, autodidactic approach, her practice interrogates systems of control and the social construction of madness.

Having left formal education at the age of fifteen, her creative process is governed not by academic conventions but by instinct and experimentation. While she approaches each project with a deep sense of rigour, she privileges intuition over rule, allowing the work to unfold through an organic process.

The worlds she builds are in dialogue with philosophical and socio-political concerns, informed by the work of thinkers and artists such as Clarice Lispector, Unica Zürn and Antonin Artaud. Through this dialogue, the artist aims to develop a visual language that not only critiques normative frameworks but also offers an embodied, affective encounter with the themes at the heart of her work.