Luiza Sacramento Edmundo (Frekwéncia)
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- Jan 6
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//Afroeste resident scholarship holder
//Sponsored by AECID
//January-February 2026
Photo: @taina.villa_lobos
Frekwéncia (Rio de Janeiro, 1997) is a multimedia artist whose compositional and speculative practice articulates performance, sound, visual and textual art. She mobilises family archives as a field for critical storytelling, investigating memories, black socialities and the silences of the archive in a fleeting listening that traverses the worlds of the living and the dead, activating the axé, from Yoruba cosmoperception, as a vital, vibrational and poetic force. Her research is anchored in hapticity—understood as a form of touch and collective involvement—to propose modes of presence and relationship in which sound, gesture, and matter intertwine, creating sensitive spaces of suspension and communion.
A graduate in Social Sciences from the Universidade Federal Fluminense (2020) and in Sound Techniques from the Brazilian Theatre Institute (2024), she coordinates the Laboratory of Anti-Colonial Studies (LEAC) pedagogically. She participates in the Xow.Rumi residency at Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, and in 2025 she will join the La Nueva Fábrica (Guatemala) and Habitar Vínculos (SP) residencies. Among her main publications are the texts ‘Carta 31’ in Laroyê: cartas para Exu (Malê Ediciones, 2024), launched at FLUP; OJUBÓ — O segredo do arquivo pertence à mãe negra (Afrotonizar, 2024); and Desde que eu soube dessa terra já não me sinto desamparada in Desejar o menor das grafias (PPGArtes-UFPA, 2024).
El Boga Residency
Luiza seeks to leverage El Boga's interdisciplinary collaboration and commitment to anti-colonial practices in her artistic work, which explores black memories and the silences of archives from a speculative and sensory perspective.
She will develop experimental projects that intertwine performance, sound and text, as well as connecting with a diverse community of artists and activists with whom to share processes and knowledge. She seeks to contribute her experience in sound practices and family archive research, while broadening her creative horizons and strengthening networks of critical and affective collaboration.
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This residency is supported by the Spanish Cooperation Training Centre in Cartagena de Indias as part of the AfrOeste artistic residency project.
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