Marcela Gontijo, born in 1966 in Belo Horizonte and a graduate in Fine Arts from UnB (University of Brasília), works across painting, photography, installation, and performance. Her work engages with urban space through photographic fragments and collages, exploring images and materials that result in a new geometry. In her works, space takes on a rhizomatic form, where lines and connections expand beyond the painting, occupying and reinterpreting the surrounding environment.