About Luiza Jesus do Prado

I define my practice as transdisciplinary, guided by integration and the search for meaning at the intersection of art and science. Within an open and indeterminate horizon, these fields converge, organize themselves, and merge, keeping the body as a central agent, moving between macro and micro scales, and between the public and the private.

The body becomes essential within an aesthetic shaped by ancestral rituals and symbolic systems, remaining in direct contact with the materials it records, as well as with substances that provoke denial, discomfort, or repulsion. This approach constitutes a mechanism for developing an alternative, visceral, marginalized, and expanded aesthetic, often organic, processed through both traditional and technical platforms. Fluids, blood, residues, oxidation, putrefaction, and recycling operate as temporal and material processes within the work.

Themes such as sexuality and gender, decolonization, peripheral realities, the deconstruction of privilege, syncretism, Indigenous ancestry, politics, memory, and mental health permeate my practice, emerging directly from my biography. What began as a process of self-knowledge expanded into an ethical necessity to be useful, to place my body in a political state of availability. Like madness, art was not a choice but a necessity, a form of resistance and liberation, and a method of reprocessing experience through multiple perspectives, without limits to development, questioning, or inclusion.

Poetics

Her scientific research begins with questions regarding the consolidation and recovery of memory through photographic reprocessing, image decompilation, and sounds generated from visual data. These processes investigate memory as unstable, fragmented, stratified, and in constant rewriting.

Her artistic practice merges with scientific research, functioning as a living laboratory in which art materializes, translates, and destabilizes scientific concepts. In this space, art becomes a tool for experimentation, reflection, and the democratization of methods traditionally restricted to clinical or academic psychological treatment, opening them to broader sensory and cultural discourses.

Her research focuses on neurophysiological responses to sensory stimuli, particularly sound and image, examining their construction, distortion, and physical and chemical reactions in the human brain. These investigations encompass photographic reprocessing, the decoding of communication systems, image decompilation, visual effects induced by chemical agents such as those associated with psilocybin and reenacted through artistic processes, and performance as a central device for trauma desensitization.

Developed through a transdisciplinary methodology, her practice operates at the intersection of semiotics, neuroscience, and psychobiology, engaging with biochemistry, physics, genetics, pharmacology, and data science. This hybrid environment sustains a field of research in which scientific investigation and artistic experience coexist, influence one another, and expand mutually.