Narratives of the Self: talks
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Date
- 17:30 / Cancelled 17:30 / Sold out 17:30 – 18:30
- 17:30 / Cancelled 17:30 / Sold out 17:30 – 18:30
- 17:30 / Cancelled 17:30 / Sold out 17:30 – 18:30
- 17:30 / Cancelled 17:30 / Sold out 17:30 – 18:30
- 17:30 / Cancelled 17:30 / Sold out 17:30 – 18:30
- 15:30 / Cancelled 15:30 / Sold out 15:30 – 16:30
Location
Atrium Gulbenkian Art Library
The forum Narratives of the Self: Women Artists‘ Books brings together artists, publishers, curators and researchers to explore the role of artists’ books in the work of women creators, between the public and the private.
On this final visit, the curatorial team involved in the exhibition will talk about the Art Library’s collection of artist’s books and independent publishing, the stages of the research project and the selection of works in the context of the themes addressed, 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 Barata
Master in Contemporary Art History (NOVA FCSH 2000), is a librarian at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Art Library. She completed postgraduate courses in “Conservation and Recovery in Buildings and Monuments” (FAUTL, 1986) and “Cultural Management in Cities” (INDEG/ISCTE, 2002). She has published articles on information science and Lisbon’s urban history and was a permanent contributor to the magazine LxMetrópole (2001-2002), directed by José Sarmento de Matos. She is a researcher at CHAIA/University of Évora.
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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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Bruno Marques
PhD in Contemporary Art History (NOVAFCSH), he is currently an Assistant Professor at Universidade Aberta and a Researcher at IHA-NOVA FCSH, where he coordinates the CASt Group – Contemporary Art Studies. He has (co)curated several exhibitions, including Narrativas do Eu (F. Gulbenkian, 2024), Vasco Araújo: LIEBESTOD (Sismógrafo, 2021), Reis, Damas e Valetes (São Roque, 2020) and Julião Sarmento: film screening (King’s College, 2019). He has published several articles in magazines and texts in exhibition catalogs. He is the author of the books Cartas fora do Baralho (2020) and Mulheres do Século XVIII. The Portraits (2006).
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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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Filipa Valladares
Filipa Valladares (Lisbon, 1971). She is an independent curator, editor and bookseller. Graduated in sculpture from FBAUL (1996). Postgraduate in Curatorial Studies (FBAUL/Gulbenkian, 2005). PhD in Multimedia Art from FBAUL. She was coordinator of the Fundació Foto Colectania in Portugal (2001/2009). As a curator, she has held several photography exhibitions. In 2011, she founded Associação STET – livros & fotografias.
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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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Joana Rocha e Cunha
Joana Rocha e Cunha has a degree in art history from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of Universidade Nova de Lisboa and is currently (2023-2025) pursuing a master’s degree in art history with a specialization in contemporary art at the same institution. She has collaborated with CEDANSA – Centro de Estudos e Documentação Almada Negreiros / Sarah Affonso. She was a research fellow at the Institute of Art History (NOVA-FCSH) on the project Narrativas do Eu, entre o público e o privado: livros de Artistas Mulheres na coleção da Biblioteca de Arte da Gulbenkian. She also has a degree in photography from Ar.co – Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual (2010-2015).
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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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Rita Burmester
Rita Burmester is a Portuguese photographer based in Lisbon. Professionally she works mainly as a documental photographer, photographing mostly for art museums, art galleries, artists and architects. Her work has been published in several books and magazines.
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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.
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Susana S. Martins
Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art and Museology in the Department of History of Art and Senior Researcher at IHA-NOVA FCSH. With a PhD in Photography and Cultural Studies from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), her research focuses mainly on the theory and history of photography, and its intersection with areas such as museum exhibitions and studies, travel books, contemporary art and national identities. The author of several publications on these topics, she has also lectured on photography, visual culture and the history of contemporary art.
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Susana Paiva
Susana Paiva (Mozambique, 1970). Resides and works in Lisbon. Creator, performer, educator, editor and producer of projects and events in the field of Visual Arts. She has been working as a photographer since 1989.
She has self-published 28 photobooks and 12 photobooks by other authors, as well as a small collection of 4 theoretical books on photography. Since 2012, she has been coordinating the project Escola Informal de Fotografia, a long-term training project for creators in the field of photography.
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
27 Feb 2025 / Susana Paiva and Joana Rocha e Cunha
06 Mar 2025 / Rita Burmester and Filipa Valladares
29 Mar 2025 / Ana Barata, Bruno Marques, Isabel Baraona, Joana Cunha and Susana S. Martins
Credits
Concept and direction
Guest artists