Alessandra Mello Simões Paiva é professora, crítica de arte e pesquisadora com destacada atuação nos campos da cultura, arte e educação, reconhecida nacional e internacionalmente por suas contribuições ao estudo das relações entre decolonialidade e artes. Professora Adjunta na Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia (UFSB), foi eleita presidenta da Associação Brasileira de Críticos de Arte (ABCA) para o triênio 2025-2027, um marco que reflete seu compromisso com a promoção da inclusão e da pluralidade no campo das artes visuais no Brasil. Nos últimos anos, Alessandra tem direcionado suas pesquisas ao fenômeno que denominou como a virada decolonial nas artes brasileiras, movimento que tem dado visibilidade e protagonismo a pessoas negras, indígenas e dissidentes de gênero, que reivindicam seu lugar de representatividade no circuito artístico em oposição ao apagamento histórico que lhes foi imposto.



Dr. Simões Paiva has a Master's in Art History, Theory and Criticism and a Ph.D. in Latin American Studies, both from the University of São Paulo (USP). Currently, she is a professor at the Federal University of Southern Bahia (UFSB), Brazil, where she teaches interdisciplinary arts and critical race studies. She is a member of the Brazilian Association of Art Critics (ABCA) and the International Association of Art Critics (AICA). Her research focuses on relations of gender, race, ethnicity, and geopolitics in contemporary Latin American art, a theme that also crosses her practical work in painting and images made with reproducible techniques, such as stencils, stamps, and prints.



Decolonial Era (Acrylic paintings 2019-2021)

paintings

Isolation wishes (drawing 2019)



Las capuchas (acrylic and marker 2021)
Paintings
Engraving (2018-2021)


The Civilization of Barbarism (drawing and Collage, 2020)







The Mermaid (urban art, 2018)





Land of Women (Oily Chalk on paper, 2015-2016)





“ The with people sleep a lot but don't know how to dream”.
Inspired by the reading of the indigenous book A Queda do Céu (The Sky's Fall) by Davi Kopenawa Yanomami and Bruce Albert. This work resulted in a large installation in the main hall of the UFSB with fabrics, embroidery, video, and other objects (2019).



Reflecting upon the history of violence and resistance, I visited the Cururupe River, once the site of the Battle of the Swimmers led by Mem de Sá in 1559 against the Tupinambá people.
CLICK HERE: https://files.cargocollective.com/c1096496/cururupe1.mp4





Las capuchas (acrylic)