Brazilian multimedia artist, poet, and activist, lives and works in New
York City and Rio de Janeiro. Over the past four decades, she has assembled a body
of work in a wide range of media that gives eloquent voice to matters of memory,
identity and social justice while consistently challenging the boundaries between
artist and audience, and between politics and art. Her present project Diary of
Smells, is an on-going cross-disciplinary sensorial project. The inclusion of
olfaction results from her long examination of society`s basic need to be sheltered
in a moment in which the sense of home/nest is threatened by wars, refugee camps,
migrations and the fragility of the environment – the collective shelter. She has
been awarded with her installation Glass Ceiling: Resilience the 6th Art and
Olfaction Sadakichi Award for Experimental Work with Scent in Amsterdam, The
Netherlands in 2019. Among her grants and residences are Pollock-Krasner Foundation;
Creative Capital Foundation; Frans Masereel Print Center, Kasterlee, Belgium; NYSCA;
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center; Rockefeller Foundation`s Bellagio
International Conference and Research Center, Italy; NYFA; NEA. Her pioneer webwork,
Book of Roofs/ Livro das Telhas [www.bookofroofs.com], from 1999, has received
grants and has been shown in several venues. She has shown extensively and at
present her installation Diary of Smells: Affectio is in exhibition at the Museu
Nacional de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro.