São Paulo, Brazil

MEXA is a performance group that has been active for 9 years in São Paulo, researching the boundaries between reality and fiction, autobiography, documentary theater, and blurring the limits between art and life.

Among the group's main works are 69 Salas H&V (2016), developed during a creation grant for collectives awarded by Casa do Povo; Terminal 10mg (2017), funded by the VAI program of the São Paulo Municipal Department of Culture, in which they performed a 10-hour-long performance on public buses in São Paulo; and Putz Bahia (2018/2019), which involved a CD recording and a series of shows with group participants. They also created works such as Cancioneiro Terminal, which premiered at the 2018 Verbo Festival and toured several festivals; the action Conversa para boy dormir, alongside the GRUA group, presented at the 2021 Dance Biennale; and Quanto mais ensaia, pior fica, presented at the 2021 Panorama Festival.

The collective has participated in exhibitions such as the 14th VERBO (2018) at Galeria Vermelho; the 11th Sesc Dance Biennale (2019) in Campinas; the exhibitions Somos muit+s at the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, and Começo de século at Galeria Jaqueline Martins, in the same year. In 2020, they performed at the 6th São Paulo International Theater Festival (MIT-SP) and participated in the Histórias da Dança collective at MASP. The group members have also been resident artists at Casa do Povo since 2016.

In 2019, they received the Denilto Gomes Dance Award in the category "Olhares para estéticas negras e de gênero" (Perspectives on Black and Gender Aesthetics). In 2023, they premiered the show Poperópera Transatlântica at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), which was also presented in Berlin (Hau Theatre), Lisbon (Teatro do Bairro Alto), Hamburg (Kampnagel), Leeds (Transform Festival), and São Paulo (Casa do Povo and SESC Ipiranga). In 2024, they debuted their new work, A Última Ceia, at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), also presenting it at Kaserne Theatre (Basel), Theaterformen (Braunschweig), Berlin (Sophiensaele), and the 38th Panorama of Brazilian Art: Mil graus (São Paulo).