Graduated in Architecture and Urbanism from the Federal University of Alagoas (2020), with an exchange program at London South Bank University (London, 2015) and a postgraduate degree in Popular Cultural Practices from the Théo Brandão Museum (AL, 2024). She develops works at the intersection of sculpture, photography, and video, using the investigation of wood and its relationship with other materials as a guide for her artistic production.

Lyara is an artist nominated for the PIPA Prize 2025, winning first place in the online category. She has participated in group exhibitions such as Raízes Mortas Ainda Dançam sobre a Terra (duo with artist Lucas Cardoso, Maceió, AL, 2024), Contraste (Museu Théo Brandão, Maceió, 2025) and has works exhibited at São Paulo Fashion Week in 2023 and 2024.

By investigating the materiality of wood in its various stages and species, Lyara focuses her research on the symbolic processes of transmutation, decomposition and recomposition, death and life. By bringing the body and the worked material closer together, she proposes a material awareness and recognition of the records of memories and experiences in the material.

It relates memories, dreams, and autobiographical fragments to the perception of matter and its possibilities for recording and responding to the passage of time and the materiality of cycles. Through sculptural research, corporeality is evoked as a tool for elaborating individual and collective ontologies, proposing integration between species as strategies for maintaining life, based on the concepts of transformation, regeneration, and recomposition.

Her work explores material rearrangements and the materiality of cycles and the passage of time, as well as the relationship between matter and the complex and unique systems of each landscape. Working in the Northeast region of Brazil, her research is deeply influenced by the environmental and cultural conditions of Alagoas, a territory marked by the presence of bodies of water, coastal landscapes, mangroves, and traditions of woodcraft and vernacular construction. Her work approaches wood not as an inert resource, but as a living material, through which the perceptions associated with this matter are able to retain temporal, ecological, and symbolic memory.

Through experimental sculptural processes involving urban pruning wood and waste such as sawdust, dust, and bark, he develops a material research that explores parallels between body and matter, proposing forms that exist between fragility and permanence, cycles of life and death, landscape and corporeality.