BUALA

(1977). As an anthropologist, she works on the gift and the idea of reciprocity from the optics of love - her PhD thesis, “Bread Is Love Amongst Strangers”, which she is finishing, addresses the idea of food as language&affection, drawn from her fieldwork in São Paulo. In her Master’s thesis, “Going Beyond the Prejudice”, she crossed themes such as gender, colonialism and performance, from the analysis of narrative of Brazilian women living in Lisbon. 

She has worked in almost every cinema production company within the  Lisbon area, where she understood the importance of repetition. Because of the collaboration with structures from different areas, she has also gained other relations with other ideas of theatre and is, nowadays, trying to do the same with dance and with visual arts. She grew up in Queluz, Monte Abraão, and the idea of periphery and suburb is present in everything she does, by means of marginality and  in the enchanted way she appreciates squares. She writes and she translates, meaning, words are her jam. She is an activist and a mother of two (feels like many).