Dedo de Moça

Dedo de Moça is the flagship project of my practice: a self-directed, research-driven book for young readers that I conceived, organized and led from first question to published object — and that was later selected for the 14th Brazilian Design Biennial, Brazil's most established institutional recognition in the field. It began inside the university, as an academic project in my Communication degree at the University of Brasília, around a question I wanted to answer: who and what was left out of the official story of the Semana de 22? I took it well past the thesis brief, into a published book and an exhibition that crosses Brazilian modern art, Indigenous cosmologies, ancestry and female protagonism — built without a client, without a brief and without existing demand.