Visual artist and filmmaker, Vaz graduated at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia (2009) and holds a master’s degree in cinema and visual arts from Le Fresnoy Studio des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing, France (2013). Her films, publications, performances, and video installations reflect on the relationship between cinema and language, examining the symbolic relationships of architectural legacies, Utopian projects and power relations through the vestiges they left behind. She held the individual exhibitions Framing Nature, Vita Kuben, Ümea, Sweden (2017); and Amérika: Bay of Arrows, Ludlow 67, New York (2017), and participated in the collective shows Excusez-moi de vous avoir dérrangés, Khiasma, Paris (2017); Performing Oppositions, House of the People, São Paulo (2017); Moscow Biennial of Young Art (2016); Obscure Objects of Desire, Paramound Ranch, Los Angeles (2016); and 3rd Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh (2016), among others. Retrospectives of her films were shown at the Melbourne Cinémathèque, Australia (2013) and at the Void Gallery, Ireland (2014). She lives and works in Lisbon.