Tali de Noronha is a research-based abstract artist whose practice navigates the intersections of identity, emotional residues, and the spiritual dimensions of the self. Currently pursuing an MFA Arts & Humanities at the Royal College of Art (2026), her canvases serve as sites of cultural resilience and transformation. Rooted in the cultural memory of a Brazilian-born artist with a rich mixed background, the work is deeply shaped by personal and shared experiences of trauma, using the canvas as a physical and political site to process historical and emotional events.

The practice is profoundly informed by the writings of Christina Sharpe, specifically the concept that the past remains in the present; it addresses the persistent echoes of a pluralistic past—the "afterlives" of history created by colonization and forced migration that travel across generations. In this context, the work creates a surface that holds inherited silences as a material process of endurance against political erasure.

Within these expansive compositions, color functions as a primary language to evoke a profound spiritual experience where words fail. The surfaces move through countless iterations, building up and paring back layers in a dynamic inquiry into belonging, memory, and the unearthing of the self. This trajectory has led to an increasing exploration in Minimalism, where the visceral energy of gesture is distilled into a more restrained and silent visual language.

In this minimalist inquiry, the white marks emerge within a black surface that exists not as a void or an absence, but as a hallowed space of persistent residence—a dense, material presence that functions as a site of archival recovery.