I am a visual and textile artist, costume designer, and performer. In my practice, I explore themes tied to personal and cultural mythology, fictional narratives, science fiction, extinction, apokalipsis and death. My research investigates how narratives are deeply rooted in collective storytelling traditions and myth-making processes, and how, conversely, these shared symbols reveal intimate stories about ourselves and our relationship with everything around us. My work revolves around exploring places and uncovering hidden structures, creatures, and phenomena, seeking to understand physical existence and life through their interactions with invisible forces that connect them to their environments and realities. These connections are inevitably found in non-human life forms as well as within the spiritual realm. Through this lens, I also investigate the complex relationships between humans and animals—how they mirror, influence, and transform one another within shared mythologies, environments, and emotional landscapes.
I like to explore across various media, including installation, photography, drawing, and performance. I believe that collaboration with other artists is essential for growth and learning. My primary medium for experimentation is textiles, through which I examine how the ongoing use and reuse of materials can serve as a reflection of the self, while their transformation and reconfiguration offer a mirror to social and ecological issues as well as it serves as a catalyst of poetic storytelling.
2017-2020 Master in Fine Arts in FBAUP, Porto, Portugal
2014-2017 Bachelor in Costume Design at ESMAE, Porto, Portugal
Exhibitions
2025
Collective exhibiton Cherry on Top at FISGA WAREHOUSE, Porto, Portugal
Individual exhibiton On how to inhabit an earthly body at CAMPUS PSC, Porto, Portugal
Collective exhibiton Mon seul desire at ALESTE, Porto, Portugal
Collective ehibition Kitchen Conversations at Dump Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan
2024
Individual exhibiton Lucid Dreams of a Static Beast at MUPI GALLERY, Porto, Portugal
Individual exhibiton Admire the predator when the Wild arrives at DENTRO, Porto, Portugal
2023
Group exhibition and performance Conversation among animals Museu como Performance in Fundação Serralves, Portugal
Group exhibition WIRELESS in Bienal textil of Poznan in Poznan, Poland
Group exhibiton Malva with collective SIROCO in O Museu de Lanifícios, Portugal
Group exhibition Cortex Frontal in Plato Gallery, Évora, Portugal
Group exhibition Intelecto Agente in Grémio dos Operários, Coimbra, Portugal
Group exhibition Drink me in Atelier Logicofobista, Porto, Portugal
2022
Solo exhibition Celebrating Mistery in Heimabyggd, Ísafjörður, Iceland
Solo exhibition NUME in Rua das Gaivotas 6, Lisbon, Portugal
Group exhibition Bienal de Vila Nova de Cerveira XXII, Cerveira, Portugal
Solo exhibition Solvitur Ambulando in Galeria Vitrina, Espaço FISGA, Porto, Portugal
2021
Participation in group exhibition and community project for Bienal de Maia 2021, Maia, Portugal
Selection for the exhibition ANUÁRIO 20, Armazém do Fundo, Porto, Portugal
Individual exibition Unearthy but Human, Unhuman but Earthy in Galeria do Sol, Porto, Portugal
2020
Virtual exhibition Labirinto cá fora, Labirinto cá dentro na Galeria ADENTRO, Porto, Portugal
Individual exibition Extinção de um Planeta in Galeria Geraldes da Silva, Porto, Portugal
Virtual exhibition A U M in colab with Irina Pereira (Oficina Arara) for Loading Fest, Porto, Portugal
Individual exhibition Terra em Vénus in Galeria Cozinha, FBAUP, Porto, Portugal
Collaboration for the exhibition Offside Paradise do José Oliveira, Espaço MIRA, Porto, Portugal
2019
Exhibition BAHAMUT in colab with Polliana Dalla Barba and Kaue Gindri in Galeria Rua do Sol, Porto, Portugal
Colective Exhibition Uma noite de verão in Via Aberta in Mota Galiza, Porto, Portugal
Group exhibition MINI:MAL in NAGA Gallery, Poland
Exhibition Monsieur Mercury in collaboration with Francisco Babo in HomeAlone, Clermont-Ferrand, France
2018
Collective exhibition XX Bienal de Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal
Performance with WINDHUND at XX Bienal de Vila Nova de Cerveira,Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal
Collaborations
2025
Sculpture for the piece Texture of Tears from Cowbirds at ZACHERL FABRIK, Vienna, Austria
Costumes and objects for Astra8 from Costanza Givone at FIMP at Teatro Municipal do Rivoli, Porto, Portugal
2024
Frente-a-Frente from Inês Campus e Vahan Kerovpya at CAMPUS, Espaço do Tempo and Cultura em Expansão
Tapestry for the piece Micélio from Costanza Givone at Auditório de Gaia, Teatro Campo Alegre, CRL and Arte em Rede
Garden/ Jardim in collaboration with Joana Magalhães and Ines Malheiro at CAMPUS PSC, Porto, Portugal
2023
Between Oasis and Horizonte for the programe Cultura em Expansão, Porto, Portugal
2022
Costume (Jellyfish) for premiere of the LP Habitat by Angelica Salvi
Mask and Costume for the movie Clandestino by Maria Mire
Creation and concept of masks for the movie Fosfeno by Miguel Filgueiras
2021
Presentation of the piece Linhas Nómadas commisioned by FIMP (Festival Internacional de Marionetas), Porto, Portugal
Performance with Windhunde for the CQNE (Concerts that never existed), Douro River, Portugal
Between 2019 and 2025 Hosting in Duo in colab with Francisco Babo for Cabaré Brutal, Portugal and Brazil
Between 2019 and 2022 Performance group Windhunde with Francisco Babo and Kauê Gindri
Between 2018 to 2020 external consultor for the company Quaternaire Portugal – Consultoria Para O Desenvolvimento, S.a. researching and advicing on content related to Masks, Ritual and Carnival Arts
Residencies
2023
Artistic Residency in Adega (Associação Pele) em Azevedo, Porto
Artistic Residency on Tufting in Cortex Frontal, Arraiolos, Portugal
2022
Artistic Residency in Silo – Arte e Latitude Rural, Brazil
Artistic Residency in ArtsIceland, Ísafjörður, Iceland
Artistic Residency in tapestry with Guida Fonseca at CORTEX FRONTAL, Arraiolos, Portugal
Artistic Residency in screen printing with Alexandra Rafael and Tómaz at Oficina MESCLA, Porto, Portugal
2019
Artistic Residency in HomeAlone in Clermont-Ferrand, France
Workshops
Tufting for Hypertextile for Textile Artists, invited by Cortex Frontal, 2025, Arraiolos, Portugal
Workshop on Magical Beings and Poetic Storytelling, invited by Shopyard (Braga25), 2025, Braga, Portugal Collective Weaving workshop for Arte em Rede, in Palmela, Sesimbra, Almada, Alcobaça, Lisboa and Moita, Portugal, 2024-2025
Creation of Magical Beings, invited by Cortex Frontal, 2023, Arraiolos, Portugal
Talks on practice
Ciclo de Conferências em Arte Contemporanea, Universidade Lusófona no Porto, 2025, Porto, Portugal
Wandering Without Destination, but with Awareness: Expanded Practices at CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva, 2025, Porto, Portugal
O que tens feito? conversation with anthropologist Margarida Lopes Fernandes, Auditótio do CCOP, 2024, Porto, Portugal
Sholarships
Shuttle 21 – AGORAPORTO Program for the internationialization of artists, Porto, 2022
Prémio de Aquisição in Bienal de Vila Nova de Cerveira XXII
Anuário 20, Porto, 2021
Publications
Boca Aberta/ Paralaxe (drawings and poetry), 2025, designed by Joana Carneiro
Admire the predator (risography), 2024, edited by TinaSiuda
Anuário (catalog), 2023, retrospective Exhibition of artistic anual activity in Porto
Bienal of Textile Art in Póznan (catalog), 2023, Bienal of Textile Art
Yuzin Azores (Fanzine), 2022, Cultural Agenda of Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Azores
Bienal de VNCXXII (catalog), 2022, Bienal de Arte contemporânea
Lapin-Canard éditions (poster), 2022, Poster comissioned by Lapin-Canard éditions, Paris, France
Holy Vulcanos/ Holy Faces (silc screen poster), 2022, edited by Oficina Mescla
Oficina Mescla (catalog), 2022, Artistic Residency in Printmaking
Fascículo #1 (jornal), 2022, with text by Irina Pereira, edited and comissioned by Paralaxe
Bienal da Maia ÁGORA (catalog), 2021, Bienal de Arte contemporânea
Lamparina #1 (catalog), 2021, Edition from the colective Rua do Sol about past exhibitions in Galeria do Sol
Collaborators
Kauê Gindri
Francisco Babo
Irina Pereira
Clélia Colonne
Rotraud Kern
Costanza Givone
Inês Campos
Angelica Salvi
Miguel Felgueiras
Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete
Maria Miguel
Ana Rita Xavier
Polliana Dalla Barba
Ece Canlı
Maria Mire
José Oliveira
Margarida Lopes Fernandes
Mercedes Vidal-Abarca
Leonor Parda
Lucie Fortuin
Santiago Tricot
