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Maria Cabrita’s work investigates issues and subjects related to history, science and other non-artistic practices to question the nature of photography and its aspirations for objectivity. Referring to the illusionary and fragile aspects of the medium, her projects explore the interconnectivity between optical mirages, images and the act of seeing. Cabrita is currently studying towards a PhD at Belas-Artes, Art and Multimedia, Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon.
Joana Dionisio’s narratives are deeply rooted in autobiographical and personal memories, while also presenting intersubjective realities between human and non-human worlds through photographs that touch the very basic nature of our existence, the fragility of life, and our mortality. Her ongoing work entitled A world that speaks in your ear is a multi- layered visual, sensual and philosophical experience. Dionisio lives in Porto, and holds an MA in Artistic and Documentary Photography.
Marta Machado’s work examines the ambiguities of history, focusing on themes of colonialism, identity and territory. Her recent series Nos Txôn explores, through an autobiographical context, the photographic image as a tool of signification. Machado holds an MA in Photography from the School of Arts of the Catholic University of Porto, and is a part of the research project TRACTS at St. Andrew’s University.
Gonçalo C. Silva’s practice often focuses on themes related to the representation of the landscape and the relationship between humans and nature. His project What is left is a photographic investigation exploring ideas of belonging, and the possibility of finding the feeling of ‘home’. Silva is currently undertaking an MA in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities from NOVA University of Lisbon.
Carolina Tardin studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. Working with both images and text, her practice explores the possibilities of the medium of photography. Her project entitled me, you and the spaces between (eu, você e os espaços entre) touches on the notions of presence, recognition, and memory. It is a very intimate attempt at instant observation; a meta-language embodied by the author and full of poetic, fragile narratives.
Maria Cabrita’s work investigates issues and subjects related to history, science and other non-artistic practices to question the nature of photography and its aspirations for objectivity. Referring to the illusionary and fragile aspects of the medium, her projects explore the interconnectivity between optical mirages, images and the act of seeing. Cabrita is currently studying towards a PhD at Belas-Artes, Art and Multimedia, Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon.
Joana Dionisio’s narratives are deeply rooted in autobiographical and personal memories, while also presenting intersubjective realities between human and non-human worlds through photographs that touch the very basic nature of our existence, the fragility of life, and our mortality. Her ongoing work entitled A world that speaks in your ear is a multi- layered visual, sensual and philosophical experience. Dionisio lives in Porto, and holds an MA in Artistic and Documentary Photography.
Marta Machado’s work examines the ambiguities of history, focusing on themes of colonialism, identity and territory. Her recent series Nos Txôn explores, through an autobiographical context, the photographic image as a tool of signification. Machado holds an MA in Photography from the School of Arts of the Catholic University of Porto, and is a part of the research project TRACTS at St. Andrew’s University.
Gonçalo C. Silva’s practice often focuses on themes related to the representation of the landscape and the relationship between humans and nature. His project What is left is a photographic investigation exploring ideas of belonging, and the possibility of finding the feeling of ‘home’. Silva is currently undertaking an MA in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities from NOVA University of Lisbon.
Carolina Tardin studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. Working with both images and text, her practice explores the possibilities of the medium of photography. Her project entitled me, you and the spaces between (eu, você e os espaços entre) touches on the notions of presence, recognition, and memory. It is a very intimate attempt at instant observation; a meta-language embodied by the author and full of poetic, fragile narratives.
Carolina Tardin (b. 1994) is a Brazil-born photographer, currently based in Portugal. Her artistic practice explores diaristic and poetic writing, as well as the manual processes of analogue photography. After obtaining a BA in Communication at Brazil’s Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing, Tardin studied Contemporary Photography at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon. Her projects have since been exhibited in a series of group shows in Portugal: in 2021, her work featured in the Intermitências exhibition at Lisbon’s A Homem Mau gallery as part of the Imago Lisboa Festival. In 2022, Tardin participated in Lisbon's Photobook Fair.
Gonçalo C. Silva (b. 1997) lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal. He has studied at both the Faculty of Fine-Arts in Lisbon and at Atelier de Lisboa, and is currently pursuing an MA at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities from NOVA University of Lisbon. In his work, which applies an artistic approach to photography, Silva addresses themes related to the representation of the landscape, and to the relationship between humans and nature. In his projects, the interconnection of images from different contexts creates new meanings and narratives with a strong symbolic character, related to the artist’s personal experiences.
Joana Dionisio (b. 1993) is a Portuguese photographer based in Porto, where she works as a freelancer on various commissioned and personal projects. Having first studied Audiovisual Communication Technologies, she completed an MA in Artistic Photography in 2021. Dionisio has exhibited her work in a range of solo and group exhibitions, whilst she was recently selected for FRESH EYES – a publication showcasing emerging European Photography Talent by GUP Magazine.
Marta Machado is a Portuguese-Cape Verdean artist who lives and works in Braga, Portugal. A graduate of Architecture from the University of Minho, she also holds an MA in Photography from the School of Arts at the Catholic University of Porto. Her photographic work analyses the ambiguities of history and the so-called ‘official’ narratives of the Western world, focusing on themes of colonialism, identity and territory. Machado’s Beyond Solid Ground project was exhibited at Braga’s Encontros da Imagem festival, whilst her Nos Txôn series was presented at Lisbon’s Imago Gallery. Her academic research, meanwhile, has been widely published in peer-reviewed journals.
Maria Leonardo Cabrita lives and works in Lisbon, where she is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Fine Arts. She holds an MFA in Multimedia Art from the University of Fine Arts, Lisbon; a Diploma in Photography from the Art Academy of Munich; and a BFA/BA in Sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon. Cabrita’s practice engages a range of subjects, from history and science to other non-artistic practices. She often seeks to question the nature of photography, inverting the relationship between the referent and the referenced, and between what’s seen and what’s perceived. Her current project questions the interconnectivity between optical mirages, images and the act of seeing. Her works have been exhibited throughout Europe and beyond.
