ABOUT
nawi rhu
Nawi Rhu is an artist with a deep gaze — one that contemplates the inner world while also projecting outward, toward the streets, the flow of energy, and the world at large. Her art traverses both the unconscious and lived reality. With studies in analytical psychology (Jung) and psychoanalysis (Freud), she found in art a space of transformation, liberation, and truth.
Passionate about rhythms, she moves through various musical styles that touch the soul and dance with deep emotions. Music brings freedom to her creative process, liberating stories that were once imprisoned in silence.
Her art is provocative, much like psychoanalysis — inspired by Melanie Klein among others — it pierces the viewer’s gaze, creating an invisible bond of listening.
This is the purpose of her exhibitions: to open a space for silent listening, to provoke an inner shift, and to allow each person to discover that the soul, when heard, finds its own path.
COLLECTION
Orixás
The force running through this collection has no name — but it is felt. It’s in the air, in the deep gaze of the figures, in the geometric shapes that intertwine with intensity and elegance. The Orixás series, created by Nawi Rhu, evokes an ancestral presence that protects, guides, and observes — not as a literal representation, but as a symbolic expression of a wisdom that transcends time.
Each piece reveals an entity of strength and silence. Bodies that rise as territories of resistance and affection. Whole or fragmented faces stare back at us with intensity, awakening within us the memory of what is sacred — even without naming it. The expressive geometry and bold palette create an atmosphere of spiritual movement and invisible presence, which can’t be explained — only felt.
This collection is not about belief. It’s about heritage. About soul. About everything that holds us up — even when we forget.
Invisible Race
Faces in Orbit
Between the Lines of Desire
The Eye of Silence
The Woman in the Frame
COLLECTION
Fragments of a Blue Body
Inspired by Picasso’s Blue Period, this collection dives into the melancholic passion of those who love the world and carry its losses in their chest.
Here, music is both lament and celebration.
Family is both presence and absence.
The arena — of art or life — is a place of risk and surrender.
Nawi Rhu translates into cubic forms and dense colors that which cannot be explained: the sound of a guitar, the weight of a child in one’s arms, a gaze torn between courage and longing.
In each piece, blue is not just a color.
It is a living memory,
a pulsing silence,
a love that stayed behind.
The Song That Watches Me
Silence Before the Impact
Birth in Blue
Mourning in Red
The Music That Watches Over Us
COLLECTION
Faces in Transit
At Zurich’s central station, the red clock pulses like an urban heart — marking the present, the future, and the past. More than a timekeeper, it is a silent witness to departures and reunions that define the soul of humanity in motion. The Faces in Transit collection by Nawi Rhu is born from this sensitive space-time, where faces cross without meeting eyes, and stories intertwine in silence.
Each piece uses a distinct fragmented cubist technique to compose scenes of emotional depth, where time flows through geometries, expressions, and suspended gestures. The faces portrayed by Nawi are not individual portraits, but entanglements of collective emotion: solitude among crowds, love that leaves and returns, memories of those who passed without a name.
The constant presence of the clock — in vibrant red — symbolizes this marker of meetings and partings, imposing rhythm on the chaos. It watches, listens, and whispers: reminding us that we are all just passengers.
This collection is an invitation to listen to the invisible.
The lights, the fragments, the overlays, and the silences make visible what the city almost erases: the human.
Departing Faces
Converging Faces
Lives in Motion
Lives in Motion
The Time of Encounters
CREATIVE PROCESS
How my artworks are born
I paint with words.
My visual works begin in the invisible — in the poetic gesture, in the internal image, in the emotion that needs to surface.
I describe scenes, colors, fragments, and symbols with sensitive precision.
Each word carries intention, and it is from them that the image is born.
I use artificial intelligence as a creative tool — a living ink that responds to my direction.
I guide every tone, light, and composition. The result is a unique, deeply original piece.
Before the final layer of my artwork is revealed, there is silence, whispered words, and the presence of the soul.