Licida Vidal (b. 1984) lives and works in Ubatuba, São Paulo, Brazil. She studied Social Sciences at the University of São Paulo (USP). Through performance, photography, video, and installations, her work explores questions of gender and nature within the context of climate emergencies. Her practice weaves together subaltern knowledge, intimate experiences, and academic research in a search for strategies of habitability and the restoration of autonomy to bodies and territories. Licida Vidal is also beneficiary of Shifting Shores / Instabilidades Costeiras, the new artistic residency program in Brazil developed by TBA21–Academy, LACO–IOUSP, and Pivô, supported by the S+T+ARTS Buen-TEK initiative of the European Union.

Led by Pivô (Brazil) and Invisible Dust (UK) with TBA21–Academy (Spain), The Ocean’s Edge / Litoral do Limite explores the future of the Brazilian and UK Atlantics, with artists Letícia Ramos (Brazil), Licida Vidal (Brazil) and Alberta Whittle (UK).

Part of the official programme of the UK/Brazil Season of Culture 2025–26 by the British Council and Instituto Guimarães Rosa, the project involves three commissioned artists and a dynamic public programme designed to engage communities, scientists, and curators in a process of shared listening, learning, and creation in Brazil and the UK.

Taking place during a crucial year for global climate action on our oceans with COP30 in Belém, Brazil 25/26 – the project is developed in collaboration by two world leading marine research laboratories: the Oceanographic Institute of the University of São Paulo Brazil (IO-USP) and the Scottish Association for Marine Science (UK). Alongside  partnerships with Bienal das Amazônias Belém (BR), Cátedra UNESCO para Sustentabilidade do Oceano (BR), Laboratório de Arte e Ciência Oceânica da Universidade de São Paulo (BR), Instituto de Ciências da Arte da Universidade Federal do Pará (BR), Cove Park (UK) and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (UK).