Anita Ekman is a visual and performance artist, curator and independent researcher of rock art, pre- colonial art and the history of forests. She was born in the Atlantic Forest (São Paulo). The focus of her work has been on Cosmovision, Indigenous agency and history, the role of women in Brazilian art and Rainforest maintenance. Ekman’s collaborative performance work take place in, and about, archaeological sites and archaeological museum collections. She is researching the historical alliances between Indigenous and African Diasporic peoples in the Atlantic Rainforest and Amazon. In 2021 Ekman, together with Benites, received a Visual Arts Scholarship from the Goethe Institute and the French Embassy in Brazil to work on the history of Brazilian archaeological collections in Europe. Together they recently completed a residency at the Clark Museum. Ekman’s work and research have been published by websites of museums such as MoMA, Peabody Museum of Harvard and Od review. Anita Ekman has worked with curators Sandra Benites and Cris Takuá on international exhibitions such as Ka´a Body –Cosmovisions of the Forest in London at Paradise Row (2021) and in Paris at Galeria Radicantes (2022), and in Santa Fe, Womb of the Earth to open at the AIA – Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) in February 2024.