Paula Berbert Ferreira Albino

Anthropologist, curatorship specialist, and art educator. She has been working with the Maxakali people since 2015, currently conducting research at the Aldeia-Escola-Floresta and contributing to the structuring of art education initiatives within this community. Since 2019, she has been the project coordinator at the Jaider Esbell Gallery of Contemporary Indigenous Art (Boa Vista - RR), contributing to the curatorial team and research efforts of this institution. She is pursuing a PhD in Social Anthropology at USP, investigating traditional and contemporary artistic practices of the Maxakali from the Aldeia-Escola-Floresta, under the co-supervision of Sueli Maxakali. She is an associate researcher at the Center for Amerindian Studies at USP (CEstA) and also participates in the international cooperation project USP-Cofecub "Shared Collections: the Franco-Brazilian collections of Lévi-Strauss".Through her work with indigenous artists from various territories, she has accumulated extensive experience in the fields of curating and intercultural mediation. Notably, she served as assistant curator for the exhibition "Moquém_Surarî: contemporary indigenous art", organized by Jaider Esbell at MAM SP (2021), and also conducted research on projects by this same artist, Sueli Maxakali, and Gustavo Caboco Wapichana at the 34th São Paulo Biennial. Her research interests, pursuits, and professional activities span across the fields of indigenous ethnology, indigenous art, anthropology of art and collections, art education, and collaborative curatorial practices. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)