Mabe Bethônico is artist and researcher, having been professor at UFMG – Brazil between 2001 and 2018. She currently teaches at the École Nationale Supérieure de Photographie in Arles and at HEAD-Genève, having been artist researcher at ESAAA, Annecy. She holds a PhD from the Royal College of Art in London, and received a post-doctoral fellowship at the Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève in 2013, supported by the Brazilian national research agency CNPq.