ABOUT

Taty Arruda is a Brazilian visual artist and researcher. She holds a Master's degree in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (FBAUP) and lives and works in Rio de Janeiro.

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Her practice investigates the entanglements between water, the body, and territory as sites of memory, violence, and transformation. Informed by feminist thought, political ecology, mythology, and socio-environmental research, her work draws upon the traces left by environmental violence on Brazilian rivers, particularly the memories associated with the Rio Doce and the histories of care sustained by women. By placing these narratives in dialogue, she reveals resonances between the degradation of ecosystems and the historical exploitation of women's bodies, constructing visual ecologies in which nature, culture, and politics are inextricably intertwined.

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The materiality of her work is constructed through oil painting, fabrics, plastic, porcelain, and found objects constitute the material vocabulary of her practice. Rather than functioning as mere supports, these materials embody cultural, social, and environmental memory, while simultaneously shaping her conceptual framework. Materiality itself becomes an active narrative force  through which ecology, memory, and politics converge. Painting becomes a space for listening and imagination, enabling an exploration of how transformations in rivers and ecosystems reverberate through bodies and reconfigure the relationships between humans and the non-human world. 

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Exhibited widely across Brazil and Portugal, Arruda's work has been presented at institutions including the Getúlio Vargas Memorial, Largo das Artes, Galeria Tato, Fábrica Bhering, the Hélio Oiticica Municipal Art Center, Galeria Aparte, and Galeria Espaço Quadra Solta. She has also taken part in artist residencies and collaborative initiatives dedicated to feminist inquiry and contemporary artistic practice.