Based in Recife, Brazil, Abiniel João Nascimento (they/them) is an organizer in the Mata Norte Indigenous uprising, transdisciplinary visual artist, researcher, and curator who holds a bachelor's degree in Museology from the Federal University of Pernambuco. They are actively involved in many communities: member of the Black and Indigenous Art Collective – CARNI; researcher and curator at the Indigenous Culture and Art research group in the Northeast – CAIN and the Indigenous Poetics Laboratory (UFPE); member of the DesAyiê research group; guest curator at the Deviant Practices Platform; and participant in the Research and Training Network in Exhibition Curation. Their research seeks to delve into the embedded memories that constitute and overflow their body, territory, and original reminiscences – these being inseparable. They have thought of their practice as a non-art, and in the convergence between spirituality, corporeality and expressivity, they have cultivated lenses to glimpse and extend the paths covered by those that came before. They are the co-author of the book What if? Archives, photographs and fables

(Editora Livrinho de Papel Finíssimo, 2023, Org.: Marina Feldhues). Their work also includes texts, poems, films, video art, performances, photographs, public workshops, and curation.