Mabe Bethônico is an artist, researcher and professor. Her work has been widely exhibited, including at the 17th Biennale Architettura 2021 in Venice and the 27th and 28th São Paulo Biennales, Kunstverein München, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, Pinacoteca São Paulo, Il Min Museum in Seoul, Centre de la Photographie, Geneva, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève and Nottingham Contemporary, among others. She was a member of World of Matter, an international group of artists and theorists engaged in research on natural resources and the complex ecologies surrounding them [http://www.worldofmatter.net/]. The project has been exhibited at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York, HMKV in Dortmund, Germany, Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery in Montreal, etc.

Holder of a master’s degree and a doctorate from the Royal College of Art in London, she has been teaching at ENSP – Arles since 2023 and at HEAD–Geneva (HES-SO) since 2018. In 2013, her postdoctoral research entitled “One Traveller after Another”, carried out at the Museum of Ethnography in Geneva with the support of CNPq, the National Research Council of Brazil, won four Brazilian prizes. Her research particularly concerns the Anthropocene, postcolonial issues and extractivism (notably mining).