Érica Magalhães (b. 1984, Muriaé, Minas Gerais, Brazil) is a contemporary Brazilian artist whose practice investigates tension, balance, and the symbolic relationships between contrasting materials. Working primarily with stone, iron, porcelain, glass, and concrete, her sculptural works construct precise yet unstable equilibria that challenge conventional perceptions of weight, stability, and function.Across her practice, Magalhães develops compositions in which materially and conceptually opposing elements are brought into close proximity, held together in states of fragile permanence. These arrangements foreground the physical properties of each material while simultaneously subverting their expected structural roles. In doing so, her work opens a space where strength and fragility, permanence and collapse, are held in continuous negotiation.Her research draws on references to Brazilian colonial history, modernist architecture, and contemporary social systems, using these frameworks as a lens through which to examine structures of order and disruption. By displacing familiar materials from their utilitarian contexts, she constructs spatial situations that operate both as formal investigations and as subtle reflections on cultural and historical conditioning.Magalhães holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Visual Arts from the State University of Rio de Janeiro. Her work has been presented in numerous exhibitions throughout Brazil and is included in the collections of the Pinacoteca de São Paulo and the Museu de Arte Brasileira da FAAP, underscoring her presence within key institutional narratives of contemporary Brazilian art.