Sabrina Da Silva Medeiros

Sabrina Da Silva Medeiros is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, installation, performance, sculpture, and writing, rooted deeply in questions of territorial memory, spirituality, ecology, migration, and re-enchantment.

Raised in the southern peripheries of São Paulo, on the edges of one of the city’s largest reservoirs within the Mata Atlântica region, Medeiros develops a practice informed by landscapes marked simultaneously by urban expansion, ancestral cosmologies, ecological transformation, and systems of displacement. Her work investigates the intersections between living and non-living entities, collective memory, and the invisible structures that shape contemporary existence. Through charcoal, ash, textiles, medicinal plants, soil, found materials, and ritual gestures, she explores processes of care, healing, transmission, and spiritual continuity.

A central concept within her practice is the encruzilhada, the crossroads, understood as a space where multiple temporalities, presences, and cosmological systems coexist and negotiate with one another. Rather than approaching the urban periphery as marginal territory, Medeiros transforms it into a site of knowledge production, ritual survival, ecological intelligence, and collective imagination.

Her practice also foregrounds feminine transmission and inherited systems of care rooted in oral histories, embodied relation, and domestic memory. Within UNTRANSLATED, Medeiros’ work articulates the persistence of ancestral systems within contemporary urban life while challenging dominant narratives surrounding modernity, development, ecology, and spatial hierarchy.