About
At Centre Pompidou (Mnam), I work with the institution’s Adjunct Curator for Latin America, Paulo Miyada, focusing on the acquisition of artworks from the region and related curatorial research.
As an independent curator, I curate and run Casa Tomada at 92 Webster Road, in Bermondsey, London. Generally, I engage with artistic expressions that focus on ecology, the use of language, the legacies of colonisation, and experiences of displacement.
My writings have recently been published by British magazine Prospect, Latin American magazine ArtNexus, and German journal Arts of the Working Class. I also write about artists and their work for exhibitions and catalogues on commission.
I hold an MA in Art History and Theory from the University of Essex, UK, and have been working in the international visual arts scene for ten years. I am from São Paulo, have lived in London for over a decade, and I am especially interested in exploring the articulations that are possible between European institutions and perspectives of the Global South. On this front, and before the Centre Pompidou, I have also worked with the Wellcome Collection in London.
Between 2021–2024, I was part of the research network Land Body Ecologies, a global collective from fields including psychology, arts, human rights, sustainability, sociology, design, and medicine. Working closely with Indigenous and land-dependent communities from Kenya, Uganda, India, Thailand, and the Arctic, together we used artistic approaches, design research, and storytelling to explore human experiences and relationships with the environment. With them, I co-led the Land Body Ecologies Festival at Wellcome Collection (June 2023), offering a fundamental contribution to the curatorial cohesion of its international artistic programme.
Photography Nicholas Burns