Gabriela Barzaghi De Laurentiis is an artist and guest researcher at Utrecht University, supported by a BEPE/FAPESP scholarship. She is also a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo (FAU-USP). She holds  PhD in Architecture and Urbanism Sciences with the dissertation Spatializations of Anna Bella Geiger: Imagination is an Act of Freedom at FAU-USP (FAPESP/CAPES foding). Her reserch explored the work of Brazilian artist Anna Bella Geiger through a feminist theoretical and methodological perspective, focusing on the concept of spatializations. It refers to the technologies and processes involved in creating, inhabiting, constructing, destroying, and reconstructing various forms of spaces - visual, subjective, urban, geographic, expographic, and cartographic. This examination reveals how the creation and occupation of spaces are integral to women's history and feminist practices.

She is the author of Louise Bourgeois and Feminist Modes of Creation, published in Portuguese and Spanish, based on her master’s research at the Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences, State University of Campinas (IFCH-UNICAMP), where she also was a FAPESP fellowship. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences from PUC-SP, with an academic exchange at Sciences Po Paris. And  she was an associate researcher in the Urban Imaginaries project (FAPESP-Université de Lyon).  Gabriela is involved in the CNPq research groups Representations: Imagination and Technology (RITe/FAU-USP) and O espaço delas (IA-UFU). 

Her actual research encompasses feminist theories, cultural history, and the political history of Brazil and the Americas, with an emphasis on spatial social production. Her recent work investigates the connections between Brazil and the United States, highlighting audiovisual politics and exploring spatializations.

In addition to her academic pursuits, she has experience working as an artist and curator in independent and university exhibition spaces, notably co-curating a recent exhibition Feminist Interiors at the University Museum of Uberlândia that showcased works by 13 artists associated with the university. This unprecedented exhibition on feminism attracted over 1,200 visitors. As part of the artistic duo Lâmina, collaborating with João Mascaro, she researches the transpositions and translations of techniques and imaginaries. Their inaugural solo exibithion presented a photographic installation that combined objects related to imaging technologies with photographs captured by the duo of the police apparatus mobilized to control the streets and contain demonstrations in São Paulo. This project was part of the Ecos of 1968 program, inviting reflections on the memories and impacts of Brazil’s dictatorship.