Sabrina Faria is a Brazilian-Irish multidisciplinary artist whose practice blends photography, video, installation, and performance. Her work is rooted in themes of migration, memory, ancestrality and the intersections between gender and race.
Since 2022, she has been developing The Unapologetic Project, an ongoing series that combines photography, poetry, installation and video dance to explore identity, belonging, and resistance through a decolonial lens.
Sabrina holds a degree in Contemporary Dance from the Angel Vianna School and a postgraduate diploma in Gender and Sexuality from UERJ, both based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Art and Activism Residency
In 2024, Sabrina Faria participated in the Art and Activism Residency at Mother Tongues, a programme dedicated to fostering cultural diversity through creative expression. This initiative, led by the South Dublin County Council Arts Office with support from the Cultural Diversity Steering Group in Tallaght, provided a platform for artists to explore the intersection of art and activism.
The residency included group meetings, collaborative activities, talks with established artists, and mentorship opportunities, all designed to inspire and empower participants. Through this experience, Sabrina deepened her artistic practice and contributed to meaningful conversations about inclusivity and social change.
Residence and Award
The Unapologetic Project is an ongoing endeavor where I use photography and poetry to voice reflections on the notions of otherness experienced by myself and other Black and Brown migrant women in Ireland. This project aims to reveal and transform traumatic experiences through different episodes of racism. I created portraits of seven women with whom I share spaces of subjectivity.
The portraits were taken individually and captured in urban areas of Dublin city centre. The conversation process and their narratives about being Black and migrant in Ireland helped me to form my response as an African artist born in the diaspora to the racist and anti-migrant discourse permeating Europe.
