Luiza Prado de O. Martins' artistic and research practice explores themes around fertility, reproduction, coloniality, gender, and race, and formulating a critique of biopolitical structures that shape everyday life. In her work, she focuses on the emergence of techno-ecologies of birth control as a framework for observing, resisting, disrupting, and troubling the colonial domination of these structures.

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In her new research, Empty Calories, she will focus on the increasing disconnection between the realities of food production and climate collapse and its widespread consumption as content on screens. Questioning how online platforms create desires for ingredients and food trends, Empty Calories brings attention to the unusable politics of food, its new networked condition, and disassociation from environmental and sociopolitical realities. Unfolding as a reality tv show, Luiza Prado will research the history of the luxury spice and medical cure-all – silphium – a once highly desired ingredient and delicacy in the ancient world. Tracing through the plant’s economic significance and eventual extinction, Empty Calories raises questions about the links between the anthropogenic extinction of species and plants and politics of distraction.