Rita Moniz

Rita Moniz holds a Master's degree in Artistic Practices in Visual Arts with the dissertation “Art against racial discrimination in Portugal: an artistic contribution from an intersectional and decolonial perspective”, 2023, from the University of Évora. She has a degree in Fine Arts and Multimedia from the same institution.

The areas she works with are: Intersectionality; Racism; Ethnic-Cultural Discrimination; Art and Social Sciences;Post-Memory; Decolonialism. Rita Moniz is Deputy International Director of Évora NAU, seeking global equity through the world of art.

Rita is a PhD Candidate at NOVA University of Lisbon, School of Social Sciences and Humanities in Artistic Studies - Art and  Mediations. Her proposal investigates the potential that art has to renew the individual morals and collective ethics when it comes to racism and discrimination in Portugal. To do this, she focuses particularly on Portuguese colonialism and its impact in the Portuguese contemporary society as post-memory and identity, based on western epistemologies and ontologies through art and education, as well as art as pedagogy. This research explores the way exposure to art validates and reflects the perspectives of  people who have suffered and still suffer from Western violence such as Portuguese colonialism. Additionally art can engender introspection on post-memory and identity by evoking emotional responses like shame, guilt or discomfort, bringing observers to reconsider their morals and perspectives rooted in western ontologies and epistemologies, making art a tool to educate.