About me
I am a visual anthropologist and psychoanalyst interested in how people make sense of the experiences that shape their lives.
Anthropology has taught me to look at our experiences as part of a wider world—shaped by our relationships, histories, cultures and sense of belonging. Psychoanalysis brings another kind of attention: listening closely to what we say, what we repeat, what remains difficult to understand, and what may emerge when we have the space to speak freely.
Across my work in anthropology, psychoanalysis, filmmaking, writing and artistic projects, I return to a similar question: what becomes possible when we have the space to encounter our experiences differently?
Psychoanalysis
A space to speak, listen and explore.
Sometimes we find ourselves returning to the same questions, feelings or patterns without fully understanding why. At other times, changes in relationships, identity, work, migration or our sense of belonging can make us question things we once took for granted.
Psychoanalysis offers a space to speak freely about what you are experiencing, without judgment or the pressure to arrive at quick answers. Through careful listening and conversation, we can pay attention to what emerges—connections, repetitions, contradictions or questions that may not have been visible before.
My approach combines psychoanalytic listening with an anthropological sensitivity to the different relationships, histories and cultural worlds that shape who we are.
The aim is not to tell you how to live, but to create a space where you can understand your experience differently and discover your own possibilities for moving forward.
Online psychoanalysis sessions are available by appointment.
Projects
My creative and research projects explore this interest through different forms—artistic encounters, writing, ethnographic filmmaking and collaborative inquiry—while returning to a question that continues to move through my work: how can we create spaces where people can revisit experience, make sense of their lives and imagine new possibilities?
Between Grain and Pearl
An ethnographic film about memory, imagination and the possibility of encountering our experiences differently.
Entre o Grão e a Pérola follows Natasha and Jefferson as storytelling, artistic interventions and performance become ways of exploring possibilities for being and belonging. As memory and imagination begin to blur, filmmaking becomes a collaborative space for revisiting lived experience and imagining what else might be possible.
What Remains of Our Certainties?
A book about questioning what once appeared certain.
O que Restou das Certezas? explores uncertainty and the assumptions through which we understand ourselves and the world, creating space to question established meanings and consider what might emerge when certainty gives way to curiosity.
Art Change
An encounter between artistic practice, dialogue and social transformation.
Arte Muda brought together participants from across Brazil to explore the relationship between art and transformation, asking what creative encounters can set in motion within individuals, relationships and the worlds we collectively create.
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