About the artist

As a first-generation Brazilian American living in Ireland, I work from a place of in-betweenness, where domestic rituals, cultural memory, and the body overlap. Displacement threads through my sculpted, sometimes stitched, and always fractured installations, exploring how memory is embedded in the architecture of place and the intimacy of domestic space.

My 'installations in flux' blur boundaries between construction and deconstruction, care and neglect, and the body and material bodies. I work with clay, plaster, fabric, and time-sensitive materials like wax or shea butter, choosing them not only for their texture but for the lingering traces of touch and time they carry.

Since becoming a mother, my practice has shifted toward slower, more intimate gestures rooted in the everyday acts that keep—and erode—the self. Humour and fatigue often coexist in these works, reflecting the borderland between survival, tenderness, and the absurd. The built fragility of my installations mirrors the inevitability of loss: some memories are carried, and others dissolve.