University of the Underground

SABINE a.k.a Gabe Passareli Simões Vieira, non-binary, 24 years old, from Rio Bonito, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Graduated as an Occupational Therapist at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, she works with Mental Health through processes of performance and art education. Between fields such as health and art, the artist develops an interdisciplinary pratice dialoguing with independent art spaces, galleries, health and educational institutions. From Night Clubs to Universities their labor is possible through Occupational Therapy methods of studying and approaching people to think and develop their autonomy and freedom.

Collaborated before with international groups as Chime for Change, Gucci, The FruitMarket Gallery. In Brazil, contributed with Despina, Tomie Ohtake Institution, Visual Art School of Rio de Janeiro and a huge group of independent artists based at Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Subverting the concept of clinic, she is creating her own method of working with groups and people.