ARTIST STATEMENT

My artistic practice develops through the relations between image, language, body, and space. Based between Brazil and Italy, I work with photography, video, performance, installation, sound, sculpture, text, and exhibition protocols to investigate representation, self-representation, dissident bodies, normativity, memory, discard, systems of value, and the politics of looking.

I do not understand the artwork as an isolated object, but as a field of relations. Documentation, mediation, circulation, public presence, spatial arrangement, and technical support are not secondary to the work; they are part of its structure and meaning. Across different media and formats, I construct situations in which image, language, matter, space, and public participation enter into relation.

As a cis intersex woman, I work with questions of narrative sovereignty, legibility, regulation, classification, erasure, and return to visibility within social, environmental, and institutional structures. I am interested in the frictions between personal narrative and collective regimes of language and power, as well as in the unstable relations between body, city, ecology, political imagination, and the material conditions of existence.

In works such as Minha História Deixa Que Eu Conto, Nas Feridas Que Eu Alcanço, If You Need Art to Act, Pequenos Grandes Traumas, Projeto Neon, and Insistir em Existir, I seek to construct situations in which language, body, matter, space, and structure are articulated without becoming fully stabilized. I am interested in opening fields of friction in which vulnerability, persistence, care, conflict, and critical imagination can take form.