During her residency at Cork Printmakers, Thaís reflected on her experience of being a Brazilian person with a strong African heritage who recently was granted Irish citizenship - linking her territories through the unity link that is her body.
Thaís also delivered seven workshops with Cork Migrant Centre Women's Group, experimenting with stencilling, scarf making and card making.
Residency Dates: 2nd-31st August 2022
Thaís Muniz is an interdisciplinary artist interested in the territories of identity, belonging, memory, displacement and inwardly love. Through her art practices, she builds bridges and open conversations to propose reconnections, change and healing from an anti-colonial perspective against innumerable mechanisms of collective illness.
Thaís’ work aims to unfold intimate practices of collective learning through community workshops, performances, installations, and urban interventions. They also expands their vision through audio-visuals, collages, celebrations, and sculptural textiles. Collaboration and socially engaged practices are part of the methodologies and ethics in their framework.
Using textiles, workshops and lectures as a transmission technology, Thaís shares with others the need to shatter the status quo to empower identities based on the reappropriation of stories, narratives, habits, representation and legacy. Since 2012, Thaís has pioneered research on turbans and headwraps in Afro-Atlantic culture and their place in art, politics and aesthetics. They founded Turbante-se, a movement and platform that follows the mystery and beauty of turbans and headwraps in the Afro-Atlantic diaspora.
