When she was a child, her family moved to New York City to escape the dictatorship in Brazil.
[3][5] Her long-term art project Seeds of Change studies colonialism, slavery, migration, and the global commerce.
[6][7] The series was started in 1999 and focuses on displaced plant seeds used to balance shipping vessels during the colonial period.
[7][9][8] In 2016, she won the biennial Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics.
[7][10] Her work was part of the group exhibition "Disappearing Legacies: The World as Forest" (2018) at Charité medical university.