Ione Maria

Ione Maria: 25 years old, straight out of Vila Albertina, São Paulo. Maria has worked with collages for the last five years, and also works with design and art direction. The collage, as evidence of Afro-Brazilian culture through an analogue/manual format, is her field of research. Her art comes from a place of situating Black narratives in spaces worthy of royalty through the images that surround them. She also creates art with friends and family members, sewing firmer and more nurturing relationships through her work. In design, she focuses on the language of Afro-futurism, articulated through the Black independent movement, for artistic and communicative ends.