Ana Vaz

Ana Vaz (born in 1986 in Brasília) is a Brazilian artist and filmmaker. Her films and installations investigate the legacy of colonial modernity and its lasting impact on land and communities. In each of her works, she focuses on the scars, ruins, ghosts and obscured stories that inhabit these territories, while also tracing the potentialities, intensities and alliances that may arise from them. Subverting the rational subject of Western narratives, Vaz approaches human, animal and vegetal worlds through what she calls "embodied cinema". In it, affects and bodies take precedence.