lesCogumelos, also known as Quézia, is a Brazilian multidisciplinary artist who works in mixed-media animation blending digital and physical processes. As “a nomad at heart”, she draws on nature, solitude, magic, spirituality and personal memory as recurring themes in her work. Her pieces combine frame-by-frame animation, physical collage and sculpture with digital video.
She began minting on SuperRare in 2022, describing herself as “a wanderer, traveling between worlds, styles, mediums, and everything that challenges me and makes me feel creative”. Early pieces from this period include Instinct for love & freedom, 2022, a frame-by-frame animation combining collage elements, and Adventure Seeker, 2022, a frame-by-frame rotoscopy animation. By 2023 her work included Fragments of a lifetime, pairing physical collage with a rotoscopy video insert, and Back to fantasy, a mixed-media collage combining 3D-sculpted elements, frame-by-frame animation and video. On the platform networked.art she has released the edition Sagittarius Moon, which has sold multiple times. In 2024 she minted Bloom through the wound on Art of This Millennium, an interactive piece pairing a digital sculpted doll with frame-by-frame animation and a physical flower collage, its code developed in collaboration with ChatGPT. The work was included in “Des/Conectados”, a group show on Art of This Millennium held in solidarity with Brazilian digital artists after they lost legal access to X.
