Swimmers Painting about my passion for swimming. I created this image at a time when swimming moments acted as a lifeline for mental health.Acrylic paint on A4 paper, 2021. PT-BR: Pintura realizada a partir da minha paixão por nadar. Criei essa imagem em uma época em que os momentos da natação funcionaram como uma salvação para a …
Book cover: “Overview of violence against women in Brazilian and Latin American universities” Book cover for the book “Panoramas of violence against women in Brazilian and Latin American universities”. Collection of articles written by researchers from several national and international universities. Organizers: Tânia Mara de Campos de Almeida and Valeska Zanello. OAB Publisher. Link: download the e-book PT-BR: Capa …
Female anthropologists Work related to the research group “Anthropology, photography and gender”, at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, coordinated by Professor Fabiene Gama. The group researches the production of ethnographic photography in Brazil, paying special attention to the production of women in the first half of the 20th century. The illustrations presented …
Women who fight In my PhD research in Social Anthropology, I photographed urban interventions (pasteups, graffiti, stickers, etc.) with feminist messages. From these photographs I made collages and drawings that later returned to the urban landscape in the form of posters. As a woman, like my interlocutors, I place myself on the streets of the …
Respect black women! To illustrate the phrase “Respect the black women!” I brought as a reference the photographer and poet from Bahia, Helen Salomão. Helen asks how to talk about racism without showing the pain, but the beauty. The photographer, who is from Salvador, works with aesthetics as a political position, creating positive images of …
Come like a woman The passionate kiss on the neck painted with nankin reinterprets a photograph by Nair Benedicto (1940), a Brazilian photographer who is a reference when it comes to politicized artistic work. Since the 1970s she has been dedicated to covering political and social events, her work has a political discourse, both visually …
Frida This drawing of Frida painting was based on a photograph by Gisèle Freund, a German photographer who lived for a few years in Mexico and portrayed Frida Kahlo in her home, shortly before the painter’s death. Gisèle Freund (1908 – 2000), born in Berlin, was one of Europe’s most prominent photographers and photojournalists. In …
Unleash your inner witch The drawing of the levitating women was based on a photograph by Barbara Morgan (1900 – 1992), an American photographer. Barbara worked in partnership with the dancer and choreographer Martha Graham (1984 – 1991), two women who were very important and innovative in their respective fields. The phrase “Unleash your inner …
Dyke resistance The drawing of the four women who embrace each other forming couples was based on a photograph by Alice Austen (1866 – 1952), an American who took photographs seeking the visibility of love between women. The illustration was based on the photograph entitled “The darned club”, by Alice Austen, taken in 1891. Alice …
This city is also mine In this illustration, I took as reference the photograph of Ruth Orkin (1921 – 1985) taken in Florence in 1951. It´s part of the series entitled “An American Girl in Italy”, an essay that features Ninalee Craig as a character. Ninalee has talked about the moment captured in the photograph …
