
Narratives of the Self: talks
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On each visit the guest artist will talk about her work in the context of the subjects covered in the exhibition, namely self-representational and autobiographical artistic practices and their contribution to the emancipation of ‘female subjectivities’ and to the debate on the visibility of women in the history of art.
Biographies
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Ana João Romana
Ana João Romana (Lisbon, 1973) has a degree in Painting, a master’s degree in Printmaking and a PhD in Artist’s Books. She has exhibited regularly since 1996 in Portugal and abroad. She teaches at the School of Arts & Design – Caldas da Rainha. She develops her work in the area of installation and author’s publications, using time and space, history and story as referents.
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Catarina Figueiredo Cardoso
Catarina Figueiredo Cardoso has a degree in Law and a master’s degree in Political Science and International Relations from the Portuguese Catholic University. With Isabel Baraona, she organized issue 32 of the Journal of Artists’ Books (Autumn 2012), dedicated to the artist’s book in Portugal, and founded the Tipo.pt database and the Portuguese Small Press Yearbook, published since 2013. She is the author of articles and books on artist’s books and self-publishing, and has curated exhibitions on the same subjects.
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Isabel Baraona
Isabel Baraona (Cascais, 1974) teaches Visual Arts at ESAD.CR since 2003. She has a degree in Painting from La Cambre (Belgium) and a PhD in Visual Arts and Intermedia from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain). In 2013, as part of a post-doctoral fellowship, she received a grant from the University of Rennes 2 (France). She started her artistic career in 2001 with a solo exhibition entitled mythologies and has taken part in various solo and group exhibitions in Portugal and abroad.
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José Bértolo
José Bértolo has a PhD from the University of Lisbon (2019), is a researcher at the Centre for Comparative Studies and a teacher at ESAD.CR. His areas of study are film studies, intermediality and comparative literature, with a special focus on questions of fiction and narrative, representation and figuration, ontology and the materiality of images. He has organised and participated in national and international conferences, and has been responsible for programming film cycles in cultural and academic spaces. He is also a photographer.
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São Trindade
São Trindade (Coruche, 1960). Lives and works in Lisbon. She has a degree in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon. She has participated in group exhibitions since 1985. Her solo exhibitions, which began in 2004, include: Dead Inside, Colégio das Artes (2015); Kglamour, Kgaleria (2009); Surviving a football town, Lisbon City Council Photographic Archive (2007); Friday night Saturday morning, Casa das Artes (2007); Sewing the wound, Caldas da Rainha Arts Centre, António Duarte Museum (2004). She is represented in the BES Photography Collection, the PLMJ collection and various private collections.
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Sofia Ponte
Sofia Ponte (Lisbon, 1978) is an artist, curator, assistant professor at IADE, European University, and a member of UNIDCOM-IADE, where she co-coordinates the Media Art and Design Lab (MADx Lab). She obtained her PhD in Art and Design from the University of Porto. His artistic practice evolves between the legacies of fine art, decorative arts and design.
Programme
18 Dec 2024 / Rita Barros
10 Jan 2025 / Ana João Romana and Sofia Ponte
20 Jan 2025 / São Trindade and José Bértolo
13 Feb 2025 / Isabel Baraona and Catarina Figueiredo Cardoso
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