I am pleased to unveil my new tapestry, Uirapurú. The Uirapurú is a bird (the musician wren of Amazonia) and one of Brazil’s most mythologized presences. Barely twelve centimetres long, it sings for only a handful of mornings each year, and in indigenous Tupi-Guaraní oral tradition, the forest itself falls silent when it does. The legend behind it is one of transformation through impossible love: a young man expelled from his tribe, heard by the god Tupã, and returned to the world as pure...

In this work I look into my individual and collective identity, exploring proto-Brazilian origins in a land where the coloniser arrived as foreigner, and where indigenous people were made foreigners in their own territory. As a diasporic woman myself, who increasingly finds it difficult naming a specific place 'home', the feeling of belonging strengthens itself through contemplation of ancestral cosmologies, and through painting. Affectionate cartographies (and a forest called mother) _...

I am pleased to be the poster girl of my next group show in Berlin, Face Off, a group exhibition bringing together artists from diverse cultural contexts: Anastasia Tory (Ukraine–United Kingdom), Andreas Geissel (Germany), Cristine Balarine (Brazil-Italy), Joshua Goode (USA), Gabriel (Germany), Sergio Gomez (Mexico-USA), and Jens Joneleit (Germany). Gaea, 170x190cm, Acrylics and pastels on raw cotton canvas For centuries, the portrait has remained one of the central genres of art. Kings and...