Lais Rabello de Andrade is a researcher in the fields of Exhibition History, Contemporary Art Theory, and Criticism. She is currently developing a doctoral project in Art Education at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (FBAUP), hosted by i2ADS and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), under the grant DOI: 10.54499/2023.03235.BD. Her research focuses on Eastern European biennials as speculative infrastructures of knowledge, memory, and resistance, approached from a Global South perspective. Through a decolonial and situated lens, she explores the intersections between post-socialist and post-colonial narratives in the field of contemporary art. Her areas of interest include: contemporary art biennials, curatorial infrastructures, institutional critique, speculative methodologies (SF), situated epistemologies, memory politics, and decolonial theory. She is a collaborating researcher on the project Extreme Sites, based at the Arnaldo Araújo Research Centre (CEAA) at the Escola Superior Artística do Porto (ESAP). She holds a Master's degree in Art Studies: Art Theory and Criticism (FBAUP), a postgraduate specialization in Art: Criticism and Curatorship from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (COGEAE, PUC-SP), a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy (PUC-SP), and a Bachelor’s degree in Art Education with a focus on Visual Arts from Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado (FAAP, São Paulo).