ABOUT

I Trained in Fashion Design in Brazil before embarking on the MA Costume Design for Performance at LCF - UAL followed by my move to Barcelona to deepen my practices in technology and ‘biodesign’. My work focuses on developing textile through embodiment of peculiar elements in order to tell a story. I’ve worked in opera, film, theatre and dance productions in Brazil, London and Barcelona. 

As a Bodily Garment Artist, I follow the values of: Embodiment, Sustainability and Communication of Emotion. I weave them constantly in an ever-evolving fabric of my own construction, harmonizing Body Training, Texture, Technology, Biology and Storytelling.

I often intertwine folkloric and social cultural elements into my research and creative processes. I find it extremely important for such themes to be more put forward in the performance industry in every possible sense. My methodology to bring them forward is to include folkloric tales and stories into my research and to symbolise them in my own form, making them usually more contemporary and utilizing techniques that are more experimental. Using personas and ideas from such traditions, I manage to bring their auras into every costume performance I design and keep their communication alive whereas still adapting them to a contemporary audience. My Bodily Garments that are inspired on folklore contain also a great deal of investigation on their bases that sums to the outcome at times more vigorously and others in a rather subtle way.

Experimentation to me means the absolute core of every single project I lead. Even the more commercial ones always need to come from me somehow “playing” with materials and finding out something interesting and coherent with whatever proposal I was given. 

When it comes to my personal creations, that is when my need to experiment comes to life: I have huge interest in embracing new techniques and new materials within fabric, especially generating “woven tales”, as a costume designer. I have made it a challenge to myself to learn as many techniques as I could that would apply to textile. They continuously support me in creating a very unusual performance out of garments that come initially from a textile development.