Brasília/Brazil
Black woman artist, photographer, educator and cultural manager.

Her artistic work encompasses the poetics of relationships, the ancestral matrices of black diasporas, bodies and territories of social and political resistance. Her approach is autobiographical and decolonial. Her languages are the photographic image, performative writing and reading. Her production is a vector for the teaching and research she carries out in the Postgraduate Programme in Visual Arts at the University of Brasilia, where she is a professor. Her interests lie in creative processes.

She offers artistic support and gives portfolio readings at photography festivals. She is a member of the World Press Photo Foundation jury for the Photo Contest 2019 and the Latin America regional jury for the Photo Contest 2022, as well as selection committees for competitions in Brazil. Since 2021 he has been part of the curatorial team for the biennial BredaPhoto Festival. At Ateliê Oju she manages her own socio-cultural and curatorial projects and those of other artists.

She has a PhD in Arts and a Master’s in Communication Sciences. She had her first contact with photography during her Bachelor’s degree in Journalism at the School of Communications and Arts at the University of São Paulo, where she was a student of photographers Carlos Moreira and Rita Toledo in the late 1980s. Along the way, she took courses with Eduardo Castanho and Eduardo Simões, among other masters of Brazilian photography. He finished his degree with the artist’s book “Deter-se”, an expressive and documentary record of the Carandiru prison, in São Paulo – SP. an expressive and documentary record of the Carandiru prison, in São Paulo – SP. There, under the aegis of argentine photography and the magic of the image appearing in the tubs of chemical developers, he decided to study and practice the photographic image.