Saphira Nancy is an illustrator, animator, and performer from Guinea Bissau, whose work invites viewers into an ethereal realm where the boundaries between the visible and invisible dissolve.

“The Planet breathes though my pores. There's water flowing, air going in and out, earth moving activated by firing synapses in each movement. There is a quality of breathing in and taking inside all that transforms. The body is transformed by what is taken in, but what is taken is also transformed. In this dance of transformation there is a constant death and birth. The meaning is not as important as the direction and the way. The work must continue. It does regardless. “ - Saphira Nancy