Luiza Prado de O. Martins is an artist and researcher born in Rio de Janeiro in 1985, four hundred and eighty-five years after the Portuguese first invaded the land currently known as Brazil. She holds an MA from the Hochschule für Künste Bremen and a PhD from the Berlin University of the Arts. Her work investigates the ways in which colonial difference is inscribed and imposed upon and within bodies through technology; over the past four years, she has been researching practices of fertility management through performance, video, and installation.