arquivo mangue is a duo of expanded visual arts formed by Camila Mota and Cafira Zoé. Nominated for the 2024 Pipa Prize, their practice engages with living archives, multispecies cartographies, cosmopolitical imagination, speculative f(r)iction, oavnis – unidentified audiovisual objects, makumbas graphykas, transformation objects, sculpture-beings, precarious supports, and ruins. Their research explores counter-colonial practices, ritual theatricalities, and human and non-human choral movements from a non-binary perspective, focusing on urban biomes, territories of reexistence, and gender and sexuality dissidences. They take the crossroads as a method, working with time and its enchanted materialities. The duo also investigates the sinister correspondences between the predatory practices of mining and urban real estate speculation. Site-specific creation, experimentation, and the work of connection between beings, peoples, cosmologies, ideas, and circuits are hallmarks of their practice. They have been actively engaged for nearly a decade in the public and collective struggle for the reopening and regeneration of the Bixiga River and the creation of a green area around the Teat(r)o Oficina in São Paulo.

cafira zoé is a poet, actress, and singer, as well as an essayist, playwright, independent researcher, video artist, and visual artist. Her work investigates counter-colonial forces of gender and sexuality dissidence and multispecies relations. She holds a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and Subjectivity Studies, with the dissertation cerca não prende rio (“a fence doesn’t hold a river”). She joined Teat(r)o Oficina in 2015 and is co-creator of arquivo mangue, nominated for the 2024 PIPA Prize. Zoé identifies as a gender-breaking lesbian and transfeminist.

camila mota is an actress, playwright, director, producer, composer, singer, video artist, and visual artist. She joined Teat(r)o Oficina in 1997 and became the first woman to direct a production by the company, mutação de apoteose (2023–2024). She directed the opening performance of the Paraty International Literary Festival (FLIP, 2019) and the Gala Night of the Circus at the São Paulo Municipal Theater (2024). Mota is the director of Cabra Filmes and co-creator of arquivo mangue, an expanded visual arts collective nominated for the 2024 PIPA Prize.