lives and works at São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Vânia Medeiros (Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, 1984) is a visual artist, designer, and educator. She holds a Master’s degree and is a PhD candidate at the School of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo (FAU-USP); she researches and practices trans-disciplinary and collaborative creation processes. Drawing is a research device that, in relation to other expressive languages, gains diverse support in exhibition spaces and the printed book. She participated in the 36th Panorama of Brazilian Art: Sertão, at the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo (2019) and in several groups and solo exhibitions in Brazil. She has performed artistic residencies in countries such as Ecuador, Colombia, and Germany. She was one of the finalists for the Select Award for Art and Education in 2017 and 2018. Her works are part of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo and private collections.

Beatriz Cruz (São Paulo, SP, Brasil, 1980) is a performer, actress, and educator. Her creations move between the performing and visual arts, seeking crossings between art life, body-city, and art activism. She researches walking as an artistic and political practice and has investigated performance, urban intervention, and the language of the audio tour. She participated in the Tsonami Sound Art Festival (Chile 2022), Mostra De|Generadas, of SESC Santana (2017 and 2018), among others, in different cities in Brazil, Argentina, and Chile. She held her first solo exhibition, “Descaracterizar-se”, at Oficina Cultural Alfredo Volpi (São Paulo, 2018), from records of her performance of the same name.

Vânia Medeiros and Beatriz Cruz have collaborated on a series of works, artistic actions, and cultural mediation. Among them are the artistic-pedagogical project Possible Women: Body, gender, and imprisonment, developed in collaboration with women in prison and egresses, with actions and workshops held inside and outside the prison system since 2016; Sonhário: Experiments between body, city and the dream world, a research space based on the observation and recording of dreams, developed through workshops since 2020; Activation program for the work Deposition, by artists Daniel de Paula, Marissa Lee Benedict and David Rueter at the 34th Bienal de São Paulo, as well as distinct collaborations in performances, urban interventions and staging with the Coletivo Teatro Dodecafônico.

The artists participated in Pivô Pesquisa 2023.