Luiza Prado is an artist, writer and theorist based between Rio de Janeiro and Berlin. She works between installation, sculpture, text, and image, using performance and ritual as a way of invitation and activation for audiences. Her practice explores relations and knowledge between plants, political infrastructures, and technology, and questions what processes are needed for collective concerns of environmental care and reproductive justice. She holds a PhD from the University of the Arts Berlin, and an MA from the University of the Arts Bremen.

Her ongoing artistic research project, Un/Earthings and Moon Landings starts from the mythology around silphium, an extinct plant used as an aphrodisiac and a spice, to engage with questions around body and territory as sites of extraction within computational, political, and economic infrastructures.

She has exhibited, performed, and spoken at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg (MUDAM), the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, the Museum of Art in Łódź,  the Gropius-Bau, the Museum Ostwall, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, the National Museum of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Savvy Contemporary, Akademie Schloss Solitude, and Kampnagel, among others. 

 

showing at quovadis: 

October 11, 9.45 - 10.15 AM 

The Sermon of the Weeds 

Performance