What we wrote when Arissana took part in Episode 11, 2024:

Arissana Pataxó is a visual artist, teacher and researcher. She is an indigenous woman from Porto Seguro – Bahia (BRAZIL) and belongs to the Pataxó people. In 2024, she was part of the curatorship of the Hãhãwpuá Pavilion at the Venice Biennale together with Denilson Baniwa and Gustavo Caboco. In the same year, she stood out for her work together with Sandra Benites and Francineia Baniwa as a holder of the Olavo Setúbal Chair of Art at USP. To create her works, she uses various techniques and media, bringing discussions that permeate experiences with her family and her people, with themes that discuss struggle, territory, memory, etc. Since 2005, she has held several solo and group exhibitions in Brazil, and has also participated in group exhibitions in Portugal, Norway, England, and the United States. She has been working in indigenous school education since 2002, also developing activities with teacher training and production of teaching materials. She has a degree in Fine Arts, a master’s degree in Ethnic and African Studies from the Federal University of Bahia, and is currently a doctoral student in Visual Arts at the same university.