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Patricia is a PhD candidate in the Communications Department at Concordia University. She draws on a feminist decolonial perspective to reveal women artists’ contributions to Brazil’s 1960s-1970s avant-garde art movement, which coincides with Brazil’s military dictatorship (1964-1985). Patricia combines oral stories and visual art as a research method in which artists use their artworks as memory triggers to discuss the past. The art object’s materiality helps to create narratives embedded with personal, public, and artistic-political aspects of the artist’s life. Patricia is a researcher-collaborator of the Oralities Cluster at the Hemispheric Encounters project – a Canadian Consortium on Performance and Politics in the Americas. In 2024, during the largest academic conference on Brazilian Studies, BRASA, she organized/hosted a panel to debate women’s artworks under Brazil’s dictatorial regimes in the 20th century. She has presented her research at international conferences like the Annual London Conference in Critical Thought (UK), CAIA – Centro Argentino de Investigadores de Arte, and the Conference of the University Art Association of Canada (UAAC/AAUC). Patricia holds an MA in Art History from tHistoryersity of São Paulo (MAC-USP) and is the co-author of an article on art collections placed under the custody of public art museums in cases of money laundering investigations.
