

Vanessa Iacono
Visual Artist
The Mitochondrial Universe
At the core of Vanessa Iacono’s work lies a fascination with the microscopic landscapes that sustain life.
Her creative process begins at the cellular level an exploration of textures, rhythms, and organic structures that mirror the emotional architecture of the human being.
The mitochondrion, the organelle responsible for generating cellular energy, becomes the symbolic heart of her practice. In Iacono’s visual language, it represents the inner motor that fuels creation, transformation, and vitality.
Emerging from these cellular landscapes are her distinctive characters figures with large, magnetic eyes that seem to hold the gaze of both the viewer and the self. These beings embody the bridge between the biological and the emotional: they are carriers of inner light, the visible expression of invisible energy.
Through this dialogue between matter and consciousness, Iacono constructs a world where art reveals the essence of being a vision that connects science, emotion, and the timeless act of looking within.
Through the Eyes of Energy
For Vanessa Iacono, creation begins with energy — the invisible force that fuels both life and emotion.
Her practice explores how this vital current materializes through form, texture, and gaze.
From this inquiry emerge her distinctive characters: beings with large, lucid eyes that act as portals between the visible and the unseen. In their gaze lives the essence of her philosophy — the encounter between matter and spirit, science and emotion.
Often, Iacono paints the mitochondrion on their faces, transforming this cellular organelle into a symbol of vitality and transformation.
Her work thus reveals the hidden flow of inner life, inviting us to perceive energy not as an abstraction, but as a living presence within every act of creation.
Vanessa Iacono (Caracas, 1984)
Is an Italo-Venezuelan artist based in Madrid, whose work explores the intersection between biological structure, emotional perception, and XR (Extended Reality).
Her practice moves between painting, sculpture, and immersive environments, transforming the microscopic world into a poetic language that speaks of energy, consciousness, and transformation.
Through cellular textures and emblematic characters with magnetic eyes, Iacono reveals the invisible architecture of life. Her figures embody the connection between matter and emotion guardians of vitality, memory, and light.
In her work, she expands the pictorial plane through XR, transforming painting into a living experience that unfolds across multiple realities.
By animating her characters through AI-generated video, she extends their presence beyond the canvas, giving form and movement to the unseen forces that inhabit her universe.
With nearly two decades of trajectory, Iacono bridges fine art, architecture, and immersive media, using extended reality as a poetic medium that amplifies human perception.
Her work positions her as a pioneering voice in contemporary visual culture a creator who fuses art, science, and emotion into living systems of meaning.
