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2025 _ performance. Ùnlọ́. performance in the context of the exhibition Desacta: Counter-spells to unravel 140 years of the Berlin Conference. SAVVY Contemporary. December 2025. Berlin.
2025 _ performance. Respeite a curva do rio. guest performance in the context of Auländerbehörde: Uma Cachaça, Bitte, by ColetivoAyôSol. Forum Brazil. November 2025. Berlin.
2025 _ performance. A Line Back Home: Ancestral Echoes in Seven Turns. part of the Dissident Paths program. Cur.: Raphael Daibert (Cruising Curators + Re_Routing). nGbK - neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst. Barazani. July 2025. Berlin.
2025 _ installation. Fetish. Barazani. July 2025. Berlin.
2025 _ preface. Call Upon the Enchantment. 
2025 _ seminar. What Words Do: Museums, Conservation and the Poison of Language. Guest lecture for the students of the graduation in Literature Studies of University of Kassel. Survival International. Spoore Initiative, June 2025. Berlin.

2024 _ talk. From land grabbing to resistance: violence against indigenous peoples and their struggles in Brazil. Suelen Calonga talks with Felipe Gabriel Mura, João Vitor Lisboa and Christian Crevels. Spore Initiative. November 19th, 2024. Berlin.
2024 _ presentation. Gbesen brought me here: my journey with a collection of African cult audio recordings made in Brazil and kept unknown in Germany since the beginning of the 20th. In: Les traces du Vodun dans les arts et cultures des sociétés post-esclavage (in press). Org.: Dr. Prof. Mahougnon Kakpo, Université d'Abomey-Calavi-Bénin.
2024 _ essay. A cagada colonial e o Resto do Mundo / Kolonialer Scheiß und der Rest der Welt. In: Catalog Lateinamerikanisches Literaturfestival Bairro-Barrio Berlin 2024. Together with Bárbara Santos e Danú Gontijo. Org.: Alba Lateinamerika Lesen & Colectivo Transatlántico.
2024 _ poetic intervention. Se conselho fosse bom... Together with biarritzzz e Kamai Freire. Jul. Sesc Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil.
2024 _ image. The Practice. AI Generated image. In: Catalog Lateinamerikanisches Literaturfestival Bairro-Barrio Berlin 2024. Together with Bárbara Santos e Danú Gontijo. Org.: Alba Lateinamerika Lesen & Colectivo Transatlántico.
2024 _ performance. A cagada colonial & o resto do mundo. Together with Bárbara Santos e Danú Gontijo. A Livraria Mondo Libro, Nov. Kuringa, Dec. Berlin.
2024 _ presentation. A voz dos meus ancestrais está presa nesse prédio: a história não contada das gravações de culto africano feitas no Brasil no início do século 20 apreendidas na Alemanha / The voice of my ancestors is trapped in this building: The untold story of the African cult recordings made in Brazil at the beginning of the 20th century seized in Germany. Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV), Mai 6-10th. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2024 _ seminar. Methodological strategies for non-academic research. within the framework of the Master's in Ifálogy Program. Faraimará Popular University of Ifá. Mai, Brazil.

2023 _ teaching. Por que os Arquivos arquivam? desafiando museus e outros centros de "produção" de conhecimento / Challenging museums and other centers of knowledge "production". Together with Kamai Freire (Obará). Sesc Pompeia. August-November. São Paulo, Brazil.
2023 _ talk. Historical Processes of racialization in Visual Arts. within the framework of the exhibition "From the South to the Global North: creative flow of dissident bodies". Cur.: Isiz Abreu and Mitti Mendonça. Aug. Goethe-Institut Porto Alegre, Brazil.
2023 _ video. Restitution (2023). Part of Do sul ao norte global exhibition. Link to video. May. Goethe-Institut Porto Alegre. Brazil. 
2023 _ book chapter. De_colonial? Archives, memory and power. In: Racialised Faces in white Creative Spaces : Ein Sammelband über Rassismus in der Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft. Münster : edition assemblage.

2022 _ life. gave birth to Ayan.
2022 _ teaching. Where we are right now?. in duo with Kamai Freire (Obará). West den Haag Summer School. The Hague, Netherlands.
2022 _ presentation. Another name for /archive/ when related to us. 13th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research. Bauhaus-Universität. Germany.
2022 _ book chapter. Pegadas antirracistas rumo à encruzilhada: arriando o ebó / Anti-racist footprints towards the crossroads: delivering the offering. In: Giro epistemológico para uma educação antirracista. São Carlos : Pedro & João.
2022 _ presentation. Racialized faces in /white/ creative spaces. in conversation with Yin Cheng-Kokott, Manuel Ricardo Garcia, Alexander Carillo, ShaNon Bobinger. Creative Lab 3.0. Dis_Check. Berlin, Germany.
2022 _ video-lecture. The Naturalization of Coloniality. in duo with Kamai Freire (Obará). Affect and Colonialism Web Lab. Berlin, Germany.
2022 _ lecture. Myth, History and Narrative: there is no such thing as decoloniality. Universität der Kunst. curso/seminar You stole the objects! Past, present & future is continuous, prof. Omonblanks. Berlin, Germany.
2022 _ presentation. Arquivamento, O Arquivo, Memória e Poder / Archiving, The Archive, Memory and Power. Museu Judaico SP. Brazil.
2022 _ presentation. A vida imita a arte? Nossa história contada por outros. Pluralize-se with Gabriel do Nascimento, Janaína Castelo,

2021 _ artistic residency. Ancestral Body Noise. org.: Gugulethu Dumama. Oyoun. Berlin, Germany.
2021 _ teaching. Arte, educação e memória: o trabalho da artista afro-brasileira Rosana Paulino / Art, education, and memory: the work of afro-brazilian artist Rosana Paulino. Instituto Arte na Escola. São Paulo. Brazil.
2021 _ presentation. All that you touch you change, all that you change changes you. Ancestral Body Noise. Oyoun Berlin. Germany.
2021 _ talk. Embodied Temporalities :: Lucy-Lameck-Strasse comemoration - Oyoun Berlin, jun 2021. Germany.
2021 _ lecture. Em direção à contra-etnografia / Towards the counter-ethnography. curso/seminar Novas metodologias nas artes contemporâneas: discurso decolonial / New methodologies in contemporary arts: decolonial discourse, Prof. Dr. Mariana Stellita Lins. Departamento de Artes Visuais UFMA. Brazil.
2021 _ presentation. O que é insurgência hoje? / What is insurgence today?. in conversation with Pêdra Costa, Rogério Félix, Lia Krucken, Paz Ponce, Daniela Labra, Ines Linke, Laura Benevides. Insurgências.net; Agora Platform; Intervalo Fórum de Arte (UFBA, Brazil). Berlin, Germany.
2021 _ video. I call upon (2021). premiered within the Embodied Arts Festival. Oyoun Berlin. Germany.
2021 _ performance. Rituals of (Real)ease. collective with Gugulethu Dumama; Sailesh Naidu; Indrani Ashe; Yin Cheng-Kokott; KooChaa. Embodied Arts Festival. Oyoun Berlin. Germany.

2020 _ life. moved to Berlin, Germany.
2020 _ paper. Em direção à contra-etnografia / Towards the counter-ethnography. InterEspaço: Revista de Geografia e Interdisciplinaridade.   Universidade Federal do Maranhão.
2020 _ lecture. Discurso decolonial x Prática decolonial / Decolonial discourse x Decolonial practice. curso/seminar Cultura, Colonialidade, Decolonialidade e Movimentos Sociais / Culture, Coloniality, Decoloniality and Social Movements, Prof. Dr. Senilde Alcantara Guanaes. UNILA / Federal University of the Latin-American Integration. Brazil.
2020 _ lecture. Por que os Arquivos arquivam? / Why do the Archives archive?. curso / seminar Epistemes IV, Prof. Dr. Dolores Galindo. Laboratório de Tecnologias, Ciências e Criação da UFMT / Laboratory of Technologies, Sciences, and Creation Federal University of Mato Grosso. Brazil.
2020 _ academic. Why do the Archives archive? Master's dissertation. MFA Public Arts and New Artistic Strategies. Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. 2020. Download. Weimar, Germany.
2020 _ photography (cover). Dossiê Matizes Africanos na Música Brasileira / Dossier African Tones in Brazilian Music. Volume 9, número 14, 2020.2.  Universidade Federal da Paraíba.
2020 _ lecture. Por que os Arquivos arquivam? / Why do the Archives archive?. curso / seminar Perpectivas contra-coloniais nas estéticas da Natureza / Countercolonial perspectives on Nature’s aesthetics, Prof. Dr. Wagner Leite. Escola de Belas Artes UFMG / Fine Arts School Federal University of Minas Gerais. Brazil.
2020 _ grant. Research Travel Grant. Goethe-Institut and France Embassy in Rio de Janeiro. finalist / honorable mention to the research project: “The stories that History doesn’t tell: a counter-ethnography of German and French national collections”, co-written with Kamai Freire. Brazil, Germany, France
2020 _ performance. I am the Archive (2020). Weimar, Germany.

2019 _ performance. For the sake of Whom? (2019). collective with Sabine Folie; Miguel Buenrostro; Lucía Diego; Devadeep Gupta; Nikola Kekerović; Eleftheria Panousi; Edoardo Tedde. Bauhaus Museum. Weimar, Germany.
2019 _ performance. República de Weimarllandra (2019). Imaginary Bauhaus. cur.: Danica Dakic. Schiller Museum. Weimar, Germany
2019 _ performance. A Casa de Maní / Maní’s house (2019). Flexões Performáticas. curator: Luana Aguiar. CCBB São Paulo, Brazil.
2019 _ performance. República de Weimarllandra (2019). Bauhaus Parade. cur.: Max Schreiner. Weimar, Germany
2019 _ photo and video. Abaçaí, ou a Morte do Guarani / Abaçaí, or the Guarani’s death (2013). Adorno Político. cur.: Tales Frey. Centro Cultural Maus Hábitos. Porto, Portugal
2019 _ photography (cover). Experiências Negras: Novas Curadorias Femininas / Black experiences: new feminine curatorships. Instituto Tomie Ohtake.

2018 _ life. moved to Weimar, Germany.
2018 _ project coordination. Perspectivas Plurais: performance, arquitetura, design / Plural Perspectives. partnership with Central Saint Martins, London. Sesc 24 de Maio, São Paulo, Brazil
2018 _ multiple. -------. SUPERformance 2. cur.: Yiftah Peled. Contemporão SP. São Paulo, Brazil
2018 _ project coordination.. Jamaica, Jamaica! partnership with Cité de La Musique, Paris. Sesc 24 de Maio, São Paulo, Brazil

2017 _ presentation. Performando a instituição / Performing the instutution. Performe-se: fronteiras borradas, fronteiras erguidas / Perform yourself: blurred borders, raised borders. UFES / Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil.
2017 _ multiple. Arte panfletária / Pamphletary art. Performe-se: Fronteiras borradas, fronteiras erguidas, Vitória, Brazil
2017 _ project coordination.. São Paulo não é uma cidade / São Paulo is not a city. curators: Paulo Herkenhoff, Leno Veras. Sesc 24 de Maio, São Paulo, Brazil
2017 _ performance. Untitled (classified) (2017). in duo with Nahema Falleiros. Cryptorave. CC Al Janiah. São Paulo, Brazil.
2017 _ curatorship. Palavra de Ordem / Watchword. artwork by Rubens Gerchman, Maria Bonomi, Emanuel Nassar] Sesc Santana, São Paulo, Brazil
2017 _ curatorship. Mamãe continuamos na mesma /Mom, we’re still the same. artwork by Keli Freitas. Sesc Santana, SP, Brazil
2017 _ performance. Utopia. II Festival LaPlataformance: Garagens, Viadutos e Vielas, cur.: Rodrigo Munhoz. São Paulo, Brazil
2017 _ curatorship. A Conversa Invisível / The invisible conversation. artwork by Anna Maria Maiolino, Hilal Sami Hilal, Paulo Brusky, Vera Helena, Daniela Avelar. Sesc Santana, São Paulo, Brazil
2017 _ curatorship. De|Generadas 3. co-curated with Ana Dias de Andrade e Bárbara Iara. Sesc Santana, São Paulo, Brazil
2017 _ presentation. Pós-fotografia: o que sobrou da fotografia é o quê, então? / Post-photography: so what’s about the left-over of photography?. III Simpósio de Arte e Midia /3rd Symposium of Art and Media. IFMA / Federal Institute of Maranhão, Brazil.

2016 _ project coordination.. Hiperarte. curators: Lali Krotozinski e Rogério Salatini]. Sesc Santana, São Paulo, Brazil
2016 _ curatorship. Calhau, da informação à alienação / Calhau, from information to alienation. with artwork by Magy Imoberdorf, Claudio Tozzi, Anderson França. Sesc Santana, São Paulo, Brazil
2016 _ curatorship. De|Generadas 2: Mostra de Performances / Performance show. with works by Raquel Mützenberg, Cris Bierrenbach, Mariana Piza, Mal Amadas Poética do Desmonte, Cecília Stelini, Coletivo Dodecafônico, Sueena, Gisele Jota, Tathy Yazigi, Jaqueline Vasconcellos, Priscila Rezende, Miro Spinelli, Grasiele Sousa, Elton/Sara Panamby, Camila Bastos Bacellar. Luiza Kame e N Rosa. Sesc Santana, São Paulo, Brazil
2016 _ artistic residency. Intervalo Escola. org.: Claudio Bueno, Tainá Azeredo. Casa Tomada, São Paulo, Brazil
2016 _ curatorship. Anti-higiênica / Unhygienic. co-curated with Bárbara Iara. works by Camila Soato. Sesc Santana, São Paulo, Brazil
2016 _ curatorship. De|Generadas 2: Mostra de Videoperformances / Videoperformance show. with works by Isabel Ramil, Luisa Nóbrega, Estela Lapponi, Dani Barsoumiam, Grasiele Sousa, Lady Incentivo, Kika Nicolela, Camila Criva e Fernanda Magalhães. Sesc Santana, São Paulo, Brazil
2016 _ performance. Conversas Coletivas. cur.: Ricardo Basbaum. Casa Tomada, São Paulo, Brazil
2016 _ curatorship. Grafiterritórios ZN: Mulheres em Fúria . graffitti by Siss, Criola, Panmela Castro, Ju Violeta, Mag Magrela. Sesc Santana, São Paulo, Brazil
2016 _ curatorship. Meu nome não é Linda / My name is not Pretty. artwork by Tathy Yazigi. Sesc Santana, São Paulo, Brazil
2016 _ artistic residency. Dizer Sim à [R]existência. org.: Coletivo Ágata. Condomínio Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
2016 _ curatorship. Pele|Parede|Pele / Skin|Wall|Skin. artwork by Del Pilar Sallum e Mônica Rubinho. Sesc Santana, São Paulo, Brazil
2016 _ curatorship. Sangue / Blood. site-specific by Renato Pera. Sesc Santana, São Paulo, Brazil
2016 _ curatorship. Resistência / Resistency. site-specific by Marcela Tiboni. Sesc Santana, São Paulo, Brazil
2016 _ gif performance. Sabonete Íntimo / Intimate soap. Nós, mulheres. cur.: Thaís Mayume Higa. 6o. Pop Porn Festival. São Paulo, Brazil

2015 _ photography. Macleay, R. S. Pensar, Sentir, Ver: Percepção e Processo em Fotografia. Editora Photos. Balneário Camboriú, Brazil
2015 _ curatorship. De|Generadas: Mostra de performances / Performance show. co-curated with Ana Dias de Andrade. works by Juliana Santos, Ju Bernardo, Ana Reis, Jaqueline Vasconcellos, Coletivo Elástica e Carla Borba. Sesc Santana, São Paulo, Brazil
2015 _ gif performance. Sabonete Íntimo / Intimate soap. Performance em Encontro. cur.: Cássio Quitério, Rodrigo Munhoz. Campinas, Brazil
2015 _ curatorship. Polissemia N. artwork by Karlla Girotto e Suzy Okamoto. Sesc Santana, SP, Brazil
2015 _ teaching. Além da Selfie: o autorretrato como prática artística / Beyond Selfie: self-portraits as artistic practice. Fica 13 Festival. PUC Minas, Brazil. 

2014 _ life. moved to São Paulo.
2014 _ fotoperformance. Pão / Bread (2012). Interferências. curator: Scott MacLeay. Espaço Lindof Bell. Florianópolis, Brazil.
2014 _ photo and video. Abaçaí, ou a Morte do Guarani / Abaçaí, or the Guarani’s death (2013). Perspectivas. cur.: Scott Macleay. Galeria de Arte Helena Fretta, Florianópolis, Brazil
2014 _ participation. Brazilian Delegation associated with the Hause of Creative Economy - Delegação Brasileira associada à Casa da Economia Criaiva do Sebrae MG. MIDEM 2014 (Marché international du disque et de l'édition musicale). Cannes, France.
2014 _ teaching Como viver de música / How make a living with music, Casa da Economia Criativa, Sebrae MG. Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

2013 _ art salon. 19o Salão Anapolino de Arte. Galeria Antônio Sibasolly, Anápolis, Brazil
2013 _ video. Corpos Ausentes. III Circuito Regional de Performance Bodearte. Pinacoteca do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte. Natal, Brazil
2013 _ artistic residency. Desafios Contemporâneos. org.: Marcos Hill. FunarteMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
2013 _ instalation. Higiene / Hygiene (2013). Como tudo que se esconde. cur.: Marcos Hill. Funarte MG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2013 _ photo and video show. Do Corpo Verdadeiro. duo exhibition with Helena Leão. Pousada do Ó, Tiradentes, Brazil
2013 _ fotografia. Metonímias #1 / Metonomy #1 (2012). 19o Salão Anapolino de Arte. cur.: Paulo Henrique Silva. Galeria de Artes Antônio Sibasolly, Anápolis, Brazil

2012 _ artistic residency. Creative Process. org.: Scott Macleay. Creative Process Canasvieiras, Florianópolis, Brazil
2007 _ grant. I AMCHAM Create.American Chamber of Commerce, Belo Horizonte and Sao Paulo, Brazil



Academic education and qualifications
2020 _ master in fine arts. Public Art and New Artistic Strategies. Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Germany
2010 _ postgrad/diploma. Images and Media Cultures. UFMG: Federal University of Minas Gerais. Brazil
2007 _ bachelor’s graduation. Social Communication. PUC Minas: Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais. Brazil
2021 _ semester course. Giro epistemológico para uma educação antiracista: a cabaça-útero terreiro como fonte de saberes decoloniais / Epistemological turn for an anti-racist education: the gourd-uterus-temple as the foundation for decolonial knowledge. Department of post graduation in Education. Unicamp: State University of Campinas. Brazil
2015 _ semester course. Modos contemporâneos de criação de imagens poéticas / Contemporary ways of poetic images production. Department of School of Communiction and Arts. USP: University of São Paulo. Brazil


Employment (selection)
since 2018 _ Imagery and Digital Assets Manager. Le Creuset. Global.
2014-2018 _ Visual Arts Programming. Sesc SP units: Santana, 24 de Maio, Pompeia. Brazil.
2011-2014 _ Executive producer of musical carreers, associate to Casa da Cultura Criativa Sebrae MG, Brazil.
2007-2016 _ Freelance photographer and graphic designer


Training (selection)
2016 _ Cinema-Fotografia: teatralização da memória [Cinema-Photography: theatricalization of memory], w/ Prof. Dr. Philippe Dubois, professor of Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3. Centro de Pesquisa e Formação. São Paulo, Brazil
2015 _ Modos contemporâneos de produção de imagens poéticas [Contemporary ways of poetic images' production], w/ Prof. Dr. Branca Coutinho de Oliveira. ECA/USP. Communication and Art School, University of São Paulo. Brazil
2015 _ História do Corpo e da Performance [History of body and performance], w/ Prof. Dr. Fabio Cypriano. Sesc Pompeia. São Paulo, Brazil
2015 _ Da arte (feminina) à arte feminista [From feminine to feminist art], w/ Prof. Dr. Ana Paula Cavalcanti Semioni. Sesc Pompeia. São Paulo, Brazil
2014 _ III Seminário Internacional Arte! Brasileiros: Arte Contemporânea no Séc XXI. Auditório Ibirapuera. São Paulo, Brazil
2013 _ Soluções Estratégicas para o Segmento Música (360h) Class 2013-2014. Sebrae. Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2013 _ Inovação em projetos culturais [Innovation in cultural projects], w/ André Martinez. Sebrae. Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2013 _ O que é arte? Inventário de poéticas individuais [What is Art? Inventory of individual poetics], w/ Prof. Marcos Hill. Funarte MG. Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2013 _ Produção e Gestão Cultural [Cultural Production and Management]. Sebrae MG e Ravel Cultural. Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2013 _ Gestão de carreiras criativas [Creative career management]. Espaçonave. Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2012 _ Desenvolvimento de projetos pessoais e culturais [Development of personal cultural projects], w/ Claudi Carreras. Museu da Imagem e do Som. São Paulo, Brazil

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