Sifting through traces of the past, Brazilian visual artist Aline Motta seeks to reveal the constant cycles of renewal and transmutation that have occurred throughout her family’s history. She also delves into her extended lineages, which have been formed by a connection to the land and periods of political turmoil. Motta’s artistic practice is based on speculative studies that resurface archival research and oral histories through portrait photography in addition to experimental performance and video. By positioning her work as a passage between worlds through which new histories may arise, the artist confronts the obscuring effects of colonial erasure. She works across mediums, incorporating sound art, collage and textiles into her installations and creating portraits from archival materials and sacred symbols inscribed onto lengths of fabric.