Luiza Proença (Brazil)
Luiza Proença
(she/her) is a transdisciplinary scholar, curator, and writer. Her studies include visual arts, education, psychoanalysis, and philosophy. Her current PhD research focuses on forms of ecological resistance through collaborative artistic practices. During 2022, she was a Communal/societal based-work fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany, where, along with zahra malkani and mmakhotso lamola, she founded the Tricontinental Secret Garden, a feminist art platform that makes use of European frameworks to explore the complexity of contexts under pressure in Latin America, Africa and Asia and their entanglements. With the support of this collaboration, she is developing a mobile exhibition display that brings back to Western Europe some ghosts and monsters from the vast wilds of the so-called "Global South", while connecting economic systems and industries, like the automotive and livestock farming, and their damage to the planet.
Previously she has worked as a curator at a number of projects and institutions, including: Weather Permitting, 9th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre/Brazil; How to (…) things that don’t exist, 31st Bienal de São Paulo; the Museu de Arte de São Paulo and bauhaus imaginista, HKW, Berlin/Germany. She was also a curatorial resident at the Fonderie Darling contemporary art complex in Canada and at the Re-directing: East project by Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Poland.
- Curator
- Marianna Dobkowska
- Producer of the residency
- Olga Miękus
