Bio
Bio
I am a visual artist working with photography, film, and image-based installation. My practice explores photographic, visual, and reproductive devices as sites of inquiry into the conditions of perception and image-making. I am particularly interested in the automatism of the apparatus and its capacity to generate images between human intention and mechanical agency.
Working with optical, analogue, and digital devices, I often apply deliberate constraints to the photographic process to restage everyday visibility and allow ambiguous or ungraspable images to emerge.
My work further engages with staging and performative strategies in the history of photography, using them to question how images acquire cultural meaning and to reconfigure the act of seeing.
Based in Germany and Portugal, I was a Meisterschülerin of Hito Steyerl at the University of the Arts (UdK) Berlin, where I also studied with Leiko Ikemura and completed my degree under the supervision of Stan Douglas. I am a recipient of the UdK President’s Prize and the DAAD graduation grant.
My work has been exhibited internationally, including at König Galerie (Berlin), Presentation House Gallery/Polygon Gallery (Vancouver), and Centro Cultural Montehermoso (Vitoria-Gasteiz). I have participated in residencies at Artspace Sydney and the Banff Centre for the Arts.
Visual Artist
Based in Germany & Portugal
2023–present — Studio Practice
New cycles of artistic experimentation developed through the culmination of previous research and curatorial inquiry.
2020–present — Transdisciplinary Curating and Project Coordination
Goethe-Institut Lisbon. Development and coordination of projects linking philosophy, colonial memory, and AI (e.g., Filo Lisboa, ReMapping, Art Meets Tech), extending artistic research toward the social and technological functions of the image.
2012–2018 — Research in Film and Philosophy
Research in Filmwissenschaft (Freie Universität Berlin) and PhD studies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, focusing on the film works of Marguerite Duras and Artavazd Pelechian. This inquiry into cinematic montage and the search for a meta-image informs the ongoing investigation into the ambiguous condition of the image at the limits of representation.
2016–2018 – PhD Research, Audiovisual Media and Philosophy Departments, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, ES
2012 – Guest Student, MA Film Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, DE
2006-2008 – Meisterschülerin under Prof. Dr. Hito Steyerl, Universität der Künste (UdK) Berlin, DE
2004-2006 – Diploma in Fine Arts under Prof. Stan Douglas, Universität der Künste (UdK) Berlin, DE
2003-2004 - Fine Arts studies under Prof. Leiko Ikemura
1997-2002 – Painting Studies, Universidade de Belas Artes, Lisbon, PT
2010 – "Arte e investigación" Grant, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, ES
2009 – "Apoio a Projectos de Criação Artística" Grant, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, PT
2008 – "Apoio a Projectos de Criação Artística" Grant, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, PT
2008 – "Preis des Presidenten der UdK Berlin", Universität der Künste (UdK) Berlin, DE
2006 – Jovens Criadores", Centro Nacional de Cultura, PT
2005 – Graduation Grant, DAAD, DE
2009 – Artist-in-residence, Artspace Sydney, AUS
– Artist-in-residence, Sydney College of the Arts, AUS
2008 – Self-directed Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts, CA
2011 – Décors par Mohammed Berbou, Maison de la Culture Tiznit, Agadir, MAR
2009 – Filipa Raposo, I.C.A.N., Sydney, AUS
2008 – Aporias, DFArte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, ES
2011 – Remote Acts, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, ES
2009 – Ohne die Anwesenheit der Abwesenheit, kein nichts, Circus Galerie, Berlin, DE
– Performance with Mikala Dwyer, Artspace 24/25 Gallery, Sydney, AUS
– President’s Prize Exhibition, Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin, DE
2008 – When a clock is seen from the side it no longer tells the time, König Galerie, Berlin, DE
2007 – Been Up So Long It Looks Like Down To Me, Presentation House Gallery (Polygon Gallery), Vancouver, CA
2001 – InMemory: oscilações do pictórico, Galeria Zé dos Bois (ZDB), Lisbon, PT