Luiza Prado

Luiza Prado

Self-portrait – Luiza Prado
Born Luiza Jesus do Prado
(1988-11-28) 28 November 1988
Guaratinguetá, Brazil
Nationality Brazilian
Movement Contemporary art

Luiza Jesus Prado, known as Luiza Prado is a transdisciplinary artist who lives in Berlin, Germany. She was born in Guaratingueta, Brazil, in 1988. She uses artistic tools such as photography, performance, video art, installation, sculpture, painting, new media, body art, music and drawing along with physics, psychology, neuroscience and philosophy. Her research is specifically on memory. She explores topics of violence, sexual trauma, sociopolitical issues and minorities within Latin America. She has been mentioned as a feminist artist in FFW,[1] Gedelés[2] and O Grito.[3] In 2014, her work "Corpo Estranho" was cataloged in the Portuguese book Evocations of Performance Art – Institute of Inhumas Arts[4] and since 2010 has been featured in Playboy Magazine, Digital Photographer and Efêmero Concreto among others.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Conheça as artistas (gringas e brasileiras) que usam a web para tratar do feminismo // Notícias // FFW". FFW (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2016-01-05.
  2. ↑ "10 artistas feministas que devemos celebrar – Geledés". Geledés (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2016-01-05.
  3. ↑ "Especial: 10 artistas feministas que devemos celebrar". Revista O Grito! – Cultura pop, cena independente, música, quadrinhos e cinema (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2016-01-05.
  4. ↑ Evocações da Arte Performática – 2010 – 2013. Instituto das Artes de Inhumas. 2014.
  5. ↑ "Achados e perdidos". Efêmero Concreto. Retrieved 2016-01-05.
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