SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL, 1992.
Currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York.

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Gabriela’s work unfolds in the relational space where material, body, and environment continuously shape one another. Working across visual art, design, and architecture, she develops artifacts as ways of thinking—investigations into matter, form, and meaning. Through research and experimentation, her practice asks how making can become a way of perceiving and relating differently to the world. Whether through wearable objects, furniture, or spatial interventions, the physical is inseparable from the temporal, social, and ecological forces that give it form.

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Her work moves between urban infrastructures and ancestral techniques, digital systems and hand-based knowledge, extraction and regeneration. Matter is never a passive resource, but an active participant in the work—a medium with its own behaviors, histories, and agency. By observing how materials transform, resist, deteriorate, and remember, Gabriela examines the cultural and environmental systems they embody.

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Her understanding of place is shaped by layered geographies and intersecting ways of knowing. Born in São Paulo to a Bahian mother and an indigenist father, her relationship to territory extends beyond national borders to include shared practices of making, caring, and inhabiting land. These crossings continue to inform a practice that unfolds between Brazil and Brooklyn, engaging cultural memory, contemporary urban conditions, and the ecological realities embedded in everyday life.​

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Working between places and disciplines, Gabriela understands practice not as a fixed territory but as a cartography of relationships. Design becomes a form of attention—a way of listening, questioning, and imagining other possibilities for living with the world by recognizing what is already alive, already connected, and already in motion.