Tuca Paoli is a visual artist, director and photographer whose practice moves between analogue collage, audiovisual work and memory research. Her collages, created from printed images, personal archives and found materials, explore displacement, identity, affection and colonial legacies. Through the act of cutting and recomposing, she constructs fragmented narratives that evoke subjective experiences and address questions of gender and migration.

Between 2011 and 2023, she lived in Berlin, where she directed and filmed several projects, including Unspoken Messages, about communication among women in Zanzibar and directed the documentary Elas, Divinas, exploring women’s relationship with the sacred. She has worked for platforms such as PlantPop, Omio and Rocket Internet, and in London served as an arts correspondent for Metrópolis, a TV Cultura programme. In São Paulo, she directed the short film Amadores and the series Chegados, focusing on migration and Brazilian identity.

As a photographer, she undertook immersive projects in the Amazon and in southern Iceland, exploring landscape, climate and symbolic connections to territory—work that resulted in exhibitions in Berlin. She is now based in Lisbon.

She holds a degree in Communications from FAAP and later studied documentary in London, directing at EICTV in Cuba, and photography in Berlin.