Current Projects

Rethinking the aesthetics of the colony

Translation and diasporic political imagination studies with Denise Ferreira da Silva and Jota Mombaça. A partnership with Echos of the South Atlantic (by Goethe-Institut São Paulo, Brazil) and The Social Justice Institute of the University of British Columbia (GRSJ), in Vancouver, Canada, 2019-2021.

Abolition garden

Political imagination study project. It is being developed as part of the Artistic Research Fellowship in collaboration between Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut and Villa Romana, Florence, Italy, 2021.

Fellowships, artistic residencies, festivals and collective exhibitions

2021

• Frestas - Trienal de Artes, Sesc Sorocaba, Brazil.
• Fellowship 2021, Artist Residency at Villa Romana, Florence, Italy.

2020

• 34th Bienal de São Paulo – Though it’s dark, still I sing, São Paulo, Brazil.
• 12ª Bienal do Mercosul - Feminism(s): visualities, actions and affections (online), Porto Alegre, Brazil.
• Power and Privilege Exhibition, Wienwoche Festival for Art and Activism, Vienna, Austria, 2020.
• Carnival in the Making, closing digital exhibition of the Echoes of the South Atlantic program, by Goethe-Institut.

2019

• Echoes of the South Atlantic, at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany.
• Artistic residency - part of the project Rethinking the aesthetics of the colony, in Johannesburg, South  Africa, with activities carried out at Nothing Gets Organized.
• Love and Ethnology The Colonial Dialectic of Sensitivity (after Hubert Fichte), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany.
• À Nordeste, Sesc 24 de Maio, São Paulo, Brazil.
• 48º International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
• Programa Orientado a Prácticas Subalternas, Artist Residency Center MATADERO, Madrid, Spain.

2018

• Risco Festival, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil.
• Video Mapping, Sesc Av. Paulista's Opening, São Paulo, Brazil.
• Histórias afro-atlânticas, Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) and Tomie Ohtake Institute, São      Paulo, Brazil.
• Festival Internacional de Teatro, Palco e Rua (FIT), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

2017

• Agora somos todxs negrxs?, Galpão Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil.
• Implosão: Trans(relacion)ando Hubert Fichte, no Museu de Arte Moderna, Salvador, Bahia and Hélio Oiticica Municipal Art Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Artist residency, Capacete Athens, in collaboration with Documenta 14 and Goethe-Institut.
• Programm Night School, WienFest Wochen, Vienna, Austria.
• AMOQA, Athens Museum of Queer Arts Athens, Greece.
• Negros indícios, Caixa Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil.
• Canal Brasil Award, Honorable Mention (For the end of Cordiality) and Honorable Mention from the Pernambuco Federation of Film Clubs (FEPEC) for the short film Experimentando o Vermelho em Dilúvio, X Janela Internacional de Cinema in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.

2016

• Oficina de Imaginação Política at 32nd Bienal de São Paulo – Live Uncertainty, São Paulo, Brazil.

Lectures, seminars, workshops, etc.

• Symposium Brazil Experiments: life & art & living in the neocolonial hemisphere,
  Center for Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University, 2020.
• Performance at the meeting: Black Women: Decolonization and Resistance,
  Somos Rosa! Project, Sesc Carmo, São Paulo, Brazil, 2019.
• Panelist: Import/Export: “No aesthetic theory, but an aesthetic practice”,
  at the Love and Ethnology Conference, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, 2018.
• Performance at the meeting Afrodiasporic Affinities: Audre Lorde and May Ayim,
  organized by Goethe-Institut and 33rd Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, 2018.
• Lecture: “Black performance”,
  In the context of Documenta Studies, Documenta 14, at Kunsthochschule Kassel, 2017.
• Lecture and collaboration with the Political Imagination Workshop,
  at Casa do Povo, São Paulo, Brazil, 2017.