Gisela Motta (São Paulo, BR – 1976) is an artist and teacher. Over the past 25 years, she has developed her artistic research collectively as part of the duo Motta & Lima and the group Barreira Y, in addition to solo works. She has participated in exhibitions throughout Brazil and abroad, for example, the individual exhibition “Contando Ovelhas Elétricas” at SESC Santo Amaro, São Paulo, in 2016 and “Amazonie – Le chaman et la pensée de la fôret” at the Geneva Ethnography Museum in Switzerland. She has participated in residencies in Finland (Helsinki International Artist Programme, 2007), England (London and Bristol, Artist Links, 2008), Brazil (Recife, In.Situ.Ações, Mamam no Pátio, 2011), and Canada (International Artist Residency Programme, Vancouver Biennale, 2014). Gisela is co-director of the 2012 film Xapiri about Yanomani shamanism. In her current research, she is interested in giving body to the multiple manifestations of the invisible.
