Manauara Clandestina is an artist whose work engages with new perspectives on transvestite life and questions the conditions surrounding these existences. Born in Manaus to a pair of missionary pastors, she embarked on a mission to the interior of the Amazon with her family as a child. From a young age, she sang in church and contributed to organizing theater and other expressions tied to Pentecostal evangelical worship.
Upon returning to Manaus during her adolescence, she had her first contact with an amateur theater group, which sparked her thirst to learn more about performance. A clandestine life led her to the country's largest capital city, and amidst a transition and the need to be heard, Manauara Clandestina emerged as a night performer. Today, she continues to perform, having expanded her artistic languages beyond this format and developing her work transversally as an artist.
Latest exhibitions
021_n1, Piramidón Centre d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, 2021
