With her artistic practice, Aline Motta (b. 1974, Niterói, Brazil) seeks to point out and fill in the gaps in her own family history as a result of colonial erasure. Her videos, photographs, installations, and performances are based on speculative studies that mix archival research, field trips, and oral history reports that she uses to access, nourish, and reveal parts of the past that were previously thought to be lost. Refusing the linear organization of time and instead understanding the past as part of the present, Motta creates works that reorient memories and construct new narratives. Reflecting on notions of diaspora, belonging, and identification she reconfigures Afro-Atlantic relations in her own ways, positioning herself as the author of her own history.
In 2022, she released her first fiction book "Water is a time machine" (a finalist for the Jabuti, Brazil's most prestigious literary award). Also, had solo shows at Sesc Belenzinho and MASP in São Paulo. In 2023, exhibited in the Sharjah Biennial 15 (UAE), at MoMA Museum of Modern Art (NY) in “Chosen Memories: Contemporary Latin American Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift and Beyond" and the 35th São Paulo Biennial.
