Lídia Chaves is a Brazilian artist currently based in Stuttgart, where she is completing a Master's degree in Architecture at the University of Stuttgart under the guidance of Prof. Sybil Kohl and Prof. Stephan Trüby. Working at the intersection of art and architecture, her practice blends a strong interest in language and storytelling with archival research, exploring the poetics and politics of space.
Her public installations NEBEN DEM KAKAOFELD and bei Nills are part of an ongoing research exploring the traces of colonial spaces in Stuttgart. In collaboration with the Kulturamt Stuttgart and the city's Office for Remembrance Culture (Koordinierungsstelle für Erinnerungskultur), she is currently working as an ambassador for decolonial memory, contributing to the development of new strategies for remembrance culture.