Renata Andrade

Renata Andrade is a visual artist, performer, and researcher born in one of the poor neighbourhoods on the outskirts of São Paulo. Her personal trajectory, marked by migration and a deep awareness of social, gender, and racial inequalities, has shaped her entire artistic practice. Working from her position as a black woman from the Global South, she navigates between various languages and territories.

She began her career in theatre before expanding into set design, printmaking, photography and performance. Over the years, she has developed a hybrid art form in which the body becomes a space for political expression. She explores the boundaries between the intimate and the social, personal memory and collective history, popular heritage and academic knowledge. Through her work, Renata Andrade questions patriarchal, racial and colonial oppression, subverting degrading discourse and transforming it into a tool of resistance and emancipation.

Using irony, self-staging and performativity, she challenges dominant narratives, deconstructs stereotypes and gives substance to plural, mutable and often invisible identities. A resident of France for several years, she also conducts academic research in visual arts, focusing on the strategies of critical appropriation employed by women artists. Motherhood, migration, otherness, language and corporeality are the themes that make up her artistic universe, traversed by a situated, sensitive and deeply political discourse.