Luiza Prado De O. Martins (Brazil/Germany) is an artist, writer and scholar. She works between installation, sculpture, text, and the moving image, using performance and ritual as a way of invitation and activation for audiences. Her practice explores relations and knowledge between plants, political infrastructures, and technology, and questions what processes are needed for collective concerns of environmental care and reproductive justice. She holds a PhD from the University of the Arts Berlin, and an MA from the University of the Arts Bremen.
Her ongoing artistic research project, “Un/Earthings and Moon Landings” Her ongoing artistic research project, “Un/Earthings and Moon Landings” engages with silphium, the first plant extinguished by human activity, examining its reverberations in contemporary digital and economic infrastructures. She has exhibited, performed, and spoken at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg (MUDAM), the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, the Museum of Art in Łódź, the Martin-Gropius-Bau, the Museum Ostwall, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, the National Museum of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Savvy Contemporary, Arebyte Gallery, Akademie Schloss Solitude, and Kampnagel, among others. She is currently based between Rio de Janeiro and Berlin.
You can contact her by writing to luiza [at] luiza-prado.com.
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