I was born in Mozambique and moved to Canada at 18 in search of broader possibilities and to imagine a different future for myself. Through a Mastercard Foundation scholarship, I completed my undergraduate studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver while navigating student work and learning how to build a life far from home. Along the way, I spent time working and living in faith-based environments, including in a Mennonite-influenced town near Toronto, where I formed friendships and encountered ways of living that shaped my understanding of care, community, and belonging. Later, with support from the Mastercard Foundation, Afox, and Robin and Nadine Wells, I came to Oxford to pursue an MSc in African Studies.

Across all these transitions, one constant remained: the responsibility and pressure of supporting family back home in Mozambique while trying to create a future across borders. Today, my artistic practice emerges from these tensions—between movement and rootedness, womanhood and responsibility, citizenship and restriction, ambition and obligation. Through art, I explore questions of belonging, family, migration, and what it means to seek stability in a world where visas and borders shape who gets to settle and who must remain in motion. I am also interested in pushing against the idea that art belongs only to those with financial freedom, or that it should exist only as a side pursuit. I make work from within these contradictions and invite others into these questions with me.