My research proposes a critical perspective on the representation of nature and animality in the Western context. I work with video, performance, installation, and text-based projects to draw attention to how human and non-human creatures navigate dependency, mutualism, and parasitism as complex methods of co-habitation. I am interested in the ancient and tradition as pre-existing learning methods that can be transformed into how we produce knowledge and cultivate possibilities for seeing and knowing through and with the digital. By doing so, I locate and question inherited colonial narratives of instrumentalization, consumption, and objectification.
I utilize escapism, poetry, irony, and speculative storytelling to generate alternative senses of reality of human-decentered nature and digital understandings of the self. With that in mind, I engage with non-anthropocentric narratives to foster a space that reimagines modes of relation and iconographies of empathy in times of identity and ecological crisis.
I hold a BFA from the University of Lisbon, Portugal (2014-2018) and I am currently finishing my Master's in Artistic Research at the Dutch Art Institute in the Netherlands (2023-2024).