Early Life and Roots in the South Lidia Lisboa’s artistic journey is deeply interwoven with her origins, born in 1970 in Guaíra, a city nestled within the state of Paraná, Brazil—a region historically marked by complex racial dynamics. Her upbringing was shaped by a unique familial arrangement; she was raised primarily by her great-grandparents on a rural farm, while her mother sought work in São Paulo at a young age. This early separation and the subsequent move to the bustling city when she was eight years old instilled within Lisboa a sense of displacement and a keen awareness of social i…