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.







Partnership with the NGO Thydewá





See CARA:   The results of this creative digital residency were carried out by the KOKIR collective and the NGO Thydêwá. The residency sought to stimulate multicultural dialogue, reflection, artistic production and collaborative co-production between non-indigenous art students and indigenous students at UFSB.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDbj0v4WBJc




AIRE – Art with Indigenous People in Electronic Residencies (Thydewá)

https://aire.miller-zillmer.foundation/

https://www.thydewa.org/aire-arte-com-indigenas-em-residencias-eletronicas/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkEBvQdTRkQ






Annual Congress of the Brazilian Association of Art Critics (ABCA). An essential reference in the Brazilian decolonial turn.



See: https://www.youtube.com/@jornadaabca4792/streams

Read the e-book: https://files.cargocollective.com/c1096496/E-book-Jornada-ABCA-2020-vers-ofinal.pdf




Images of Difference, Experiences of the Common"



https://www.ufsb.edu.br/cfartes/noticias/165-oficina-inventar-com-a-diferenca-no-proext-cinema-e-direitos-humanos


See: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW9I_jWC79A


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tNDreHlh94


Interview with Professor Rosângela de Tugny, lead researcher at PROEXT (2016) https://www.ufsb.edu.br/ultimas-noticias/1196-programa-de-extensao-trabalhou-com-a-valorizacao-dos-idiomas-e-da-cultura-maxakali-pataxo






Las capuchas (acrylic)