FRANCINE MOURA
She is a Black woman. She loves creating spaces and images and finds in visual arts, body arts, and architecture movements to express herself in the world. She works as an architect, art director, exhibition designer, set designer, carnival designer, costume designer, dancer, and performer. She holds a degree in Architecture and Urbanism from Mackenzie Presbyterian University and postgraduate degrees in Education, Ethnic-Racial Relations and Society from the Campos Sales Integrated Faculties and in Architectural Design in the Contemporary City, also from Mackenzie Presbyterian University. Beyond her connection to academia, she strongly believes in independent and autonomous research, free training, and especially in the wisdom of those who came before. She has had a relationship with dance since she learned, as a child, the power of the body. She studied classical ballet, modern ballet, tap dancing, ballroom dancing, Egyptian belly dancing until she truly found herself in Afro-diasporic dances, where she is currently located. She independently researches samba footwork and has experience with the corporealities of Samba Schools. As part of her ongoing research, she is the art director and artist-researcher at the Center for Studies in Black Corporealities; a carnival performer and member of the dance troupe of the Afro-Affirmative Bloc Ilu Inã; and art director and performer-creator of Macuas Cia Cênica.
FRANCINE MOURA STUDIO
Francine Moura Studio is transdisciplinary and focused on the investigation of space, image, and body. We create and develop projects in architecture, exhibition design, art direction, and set design. The studio is always in constant reflection and values projects and actions with a positive sociocultural impact, especially in the field of arts and culture. The teams that make up the projects are mostly composed of Black and mixed-race professionals. Our focus is ephemeral architecture, working in the field of exhibitions in institutions, galleries and alternative spaces, in festivals, in set design for shows and events, and in the art department of audiovisual and cinematographic productions in multiple languages such as feature and short films, documentaries, series, web series, video dance, and music videos. We create and develop projects for Itaú Cultural, Mercado Livre, Grendene, Boogie Naipe, Sesc Santana, Sesc Vila Mariana, Sesc Avenida Paulista, Sesc Pompéia, Sesc Bom Retiro, Sesc Campinas, Oficina Cultural Alfredo Volpi, TI Comunicações (South African Tourism Secretariat), Poieses, Instituto Feira Preta, Instituto Afrolatinas, Boutique Filmes, Odun Filmes, Dandara Produções, Gullane Entretenimento, among others.
