Growing up in the countryside in Brazil, I wanted to be an astronaut. Instead, I was given a camera at age nine for winning a contest at primary school. I took photos of everything and everyone. Unfortunately, many of the rolls of film I went through were never developed. I still think of those never seen photographs.
I am now an Australia-based photographic artist, writer and researcher. My practice is positioned in the field of socially engaged art, autofiction and expanded photography. My projects value on ‘narratives of the self’ that sit outside limitations of colonial narratives as resources for creating visual vocabularies to represent complex experiences of womxnhood and the female body, and migration and cultural identity. The aim of the projects is the seeking of strategies in communicating complex experiences within public discourses; therefore, proposing a parting from traditional systems of power and privilege to rediscover inclusive ways of knowing.
I have a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours from RMIT University, and I am a currently a PhD candidate also at RMIT University. My work has been shown at the OpenWalls Arles 2021 Awards in Arles, France, to which I was awarded Best Moving Image. Most recently at the PHOTO 2024 International Photo Festival, Australia, PORTRAITS Hellerau Photography Awards 2023 in Dresden, Germany, amongst others. My work has been featured in Fisheye Magazine, GUP Magazine, British Journal of Photography, and other publications.
