The Member
Bienal Fotografia do Porto
The Bienal Fotografia do Porto aims to contribute to the production and dissemination of alternative artistic perspectives and actions that promote ethical and regenerative cultural change that we believe is as desirable as it is essential. The Bienal features exhibitions by national and international artists in museums and alternative public venues throughout the historical center of Porto. The majority of artworks result from residences and research laboratories carried out within the framework of the Bienal. The Bienal pioneers research and experimentation in photography and its transdisciplinary relationship with other artistic fields; promoting alternative methodologies and proposing multiple perspectives, utopian or dystopian, to motivate cultural transformations. The Bienal Fotografia do Porto is organized and produced by Ci.CLO, in co-production with the Porto City Council. The Bienal is financed by the Portuguese Ministry of Culture, with the patronage of BPI and Fundação “la Caixa”, the institutional support of UNESCO National Commission and a network of national and international strategic partners.
Nominations
Discover the artists selected by
Bienal Fotografia do Porto
since
2022
The Ci.CLO Plataforma de Fotografia / Bienal Fotografia do Porto nominations for 2024 Futures Platform are Teresa Freitas, Rui Costa, Maria Beatriz de Vilhena, Katya Bogachevskaia and João Ramilo. The curatorial team recognises that each of the five artists, all based in Portugal, expands the visual language of photography and its impact on contemporary culture through their investigations into the power of documentary photography, the role of memory in autobiographical narratives, notions of faith as a universal human need, emigration and the emotional impact of the war and the socio-crisis in rural territories.
All of the artists invited to participate in FUTURES 2023 by Bienal Fotografia do Porto are strongly connected with a Portuguese background. With interpretive visions which expand the visual language of classical documentary photography, each of these artists are exceptionally gifted in the field of image making, especially in subjective and symbolic ways.
Having joined the FUTURES network in 2021, this edition marks our first nomination of talents – for which we’ve decided to choose artists who can genuinely grow through the network’s activities. Equally, we believe these authors can enrich the FUTURES artistic community with their original projects and unique experiences.
As Ci.CLO runs its core activities in Portugal, three of our five FUTURES talents are primarily active domestically. In line with our social, environmental and political emphases, their projects have clear socio-political contexts, rooted in multi-layered sociological and ecological narratives. The remaining nominees come from Belarus and Ukraine respectively, reflecting our efforts to support artists from European countries suffering from conflict and oppression.
