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Luiza Furtado was born in Florianopolis an island in Brazil, in 1999. She lived for over 20 years in Rio de Janeiro where she received her Industrial Design BA from PUC University in 2021. Since two years she moved to Austria for her studies in the Contextual Painting Class with the Professor Ashley Hans Scheirl at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Furtado's research on intuitive dance weaves painting, soft sculpture and audiovisual media. Creating cloth capsules for symbolic rituals of empowerment and care. Her performative work is based on prosthetic experimentations with upcycled textille craft through a queerfeminist perspective. Resulting in bulging spawns suggestive of metaphorical haptics and sensuality. The optimization inscribed in the process of transforming found materials relates to a prosthetic quality of the artist´s costume designs that gradually morphed into textile sculptures. As upcycling is defined by the reuse of discarded objects in such a way as to create a product of higher quality or value than the original. Her body of work unfolds as axiomatic fictions which approach ecology through the embodiment of poetry. Furtado has presented her pieces at Bienal Black Art Brasil, Paço Imperial in Rio de Janeiro, Coronet Theatre in London, Das Weisse Haus in Vienna, Alfred Institute in Tel Aviv, BCMA gallery in Berlin and MOM Art Space in Hamburg. Having an active practice in between Brasil and Austria, the artists interest on video-performance grows; as a sustainable alternative to work cross-atlanticaly. """