Veridiana Zurita

Veridiana Zurita (São Paulo, 1982) is a visual artist, researcher and essayist. Currently based in São Paulo, her work spans artistic practice, social research, and community engagement. She coordinates the initiative (Não)Coma o Microfone (Don't Eat the Microphone) at the Psychosocial Care Center (CAPS III) in Brasilândia, and produces the digital channel @saifetiche. Additionally, Zurita directed the documentary film for the Manifesto Coletivo (Collective Manifesto), an activist and artistic initiative demanding accountability for the more than 700,000 fatalities in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Verdiana began studying Classical Ballet at the Royal Dance Academy in São Paulo, Brazil. After her initial training she moved on to study Communications on Body Art Performance and Dance at the University of São Paulo, where she developed a highly individualized artistic practice utilizing various aspects of performance, video, and dance. Working within performance, video and text she focuses on the creation of work, as the one of exercising dynamics of relation between self and other. Through language, physicality and image as constitutive elements for identifying oneself, she focuses the work on creating distances and approximations among these structures as possibilities of voicing.
Veridiana moved to Europe for a master study at the Dutch Art Institute (2008-2010), followed by a post-master on artistic research at a.pass in Brussels. Today she also holds a Master’s degree in Social Sciences. 

Veridiana returned to DAI in 2014 as a guest performer at the symposium "did you feel it?" 

Learn more about Veridiana Zurita's MA thesis: Embodied Life - An investigation into the body and its (im)possibilities of creating reality

Learn more about Veridiana Zurita's publication: Life Is Too Short

Read Mariana Maruyama's brief intro to Verdiana's practice