ABOUT
I’m an artist and researcher who treats photography as matter as much as image. My work follows what happens to images, maps, and documents when they are eroded, eaten, faded, or reprinted by other agents: insects, plants, ferrofluid, and even the gaze itself. I’m interested in what decay does to the things that hold identity, territory, and memory in place, such as maps and documents, and in what changes when I leave part of the authorship to other species.
My doctoral research looked at how photographs address touch as well as sight, through works such as Read Me, Touch Me, and Wandering Gaze. Since a 2020 residency in Hong Kong, my focus has shifted to territory, borders, and transit, including climate displacement, in the ongoing project From Transtopia to Supertopia, where silverfish eat through a travel document, mealworms through styrofoam, and leaves hold fading maps.
I work across analogue and digital media, with archives, maps, and living or discarded materials, often alongside scientists, makers, and other artists. Coming from a photochemical photography background, I develop and teach environmentally conscious processes in the studio and darkroom, such as chlorophyll printing, anthotypes, botanical toning, cyanotypes on glass, and printing on agar and bacterial cellulose.
I’ve been presenting my work since 2005 through exhibitions, lectures, and publications, including at Fotomuseum Winterthur (CH), Ars Electronica (AT), Athens Photo Festival (GR), FORMAT (UK), and Taipei Photo Festival (TW). In 2020, I was artist in residence at In-Situ and V54 in Hong Kong, with a grant from Fundação Oriente. In 2022 and 2023, I took part in the Halaqat Media Arts residency, organised by Bozar, Goethe-Institut, and iMAL in Brussels, and by Goethe-Institut Kairo and Cairotronica in Cairo. I co-coordinated Post-Screen: International Festival of Art, New Media and Cybercultures (Lisbon, 2014 and 2016), and in 2025 I co-founded Associação Caroço, a cultural association in Lavacolhos, in the interior of Portugal, bringing together art, anthropology, science, and local memory.
My doctoral research looked at how photographs address touch as well as sight, through works such as Read Me, Touch Me, and Wandering Gaze. Since a 2020 residency in Hong Kong, my focus has shifted to territory, borders, and transit, including climate displacement, in the ongoing project From Transtopia to Supertopia, where silverfish eat through a travel document, mealworms through styrofoam, and leaves hold fading maps.
I work across analogue and digital media, with archives, maps, and living or discarded materials, often alongside scientists, makers, and other artists. Coming from a photochemical photography background, I develop and teach environmentally conscious processes in the studio and darkroom, such as chlorophyll printing, anthotypes, botanical toning, cyanotypes on glass, and printing on agar and bacterial cellulose.
I’ve been presenting my work since 2005 through exhibitions, lectures, and publications, including at Fotomuseum Winterthur (CH), Ars Electronica (AT), Athens Photo Festival (GR), FORMAT (UK), and Taipei Photo Festival (TW). In 2020, I was artist in residence at In-Situ and V54 in Hong Kong, with a grant from Fundação Oriente. In 2022 and 2023, I took part in the Halaqat Media Arts residency, organised by Bozar, Goethe-Institut, and iMAL in Brussels, and by Goethe-Institut Kairo and Cairotronica in Cairo. I co-coordinated Post-Screen: International Festival of Art, New Media and Cybercultures (Lisbon, 2014 and 2016), and in 2025 I co-founded Associação Caroço, a cultural association in Lavacolhos, in the interior of Portugal, bringing together art, anthropology, science, and local memory.
In short: I like to do things with stuff.
︎︎︎ Integrated Researcher, Centro de Investigação e de Estudos em Belas-Artes, Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Universidade de Lisboa (PT)
︎︎︎ Invited Adjunct Professor, Licenciatura em Som e Imagem, Escola de Artes e Design, Caldas da Rainha, Universidade de Leiria e Oeste (PT)
Academic education
︎︎︎ PhD in Fine Arts – Photography, Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Universidade de Lisboa (2019), FCT Doctoral Studies Fellowship SFRH/BD/91327/2012;
︎︎︎ Master’s Degree in Fine Arts – Painting, Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Universidade de Lisboa (2011);
︎︎︎ Degree in Fine Arts – Painting, Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Universidade de Lisboa (2007), specialisation in photochemical photography and darkroom practices;
︎︎︎ Image and Movement course, Centro de Imagem e Técnicas Narrativas do Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.
Awards, grants and residencies
Halaqat Media Arts Residency, Bozar, Goethe-Institut, and iMAL, Brussels (BE, 2022), and Goethe-Institut Kairo and Cairotronica, Cairo (EG, 2023), co-funded by the European Union; In-Situ and V54 Artist Residency, Hong Kong (HK, 2020), with a grant from Fundação Oriente; Graduate Scholar Award, Seventh International Conference on The Image, Liverpool John Moores University (UK, 2016); selected to represent Portugal at the XV Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Thessaloniki (GR, 2011); eCREA Prize, EMERGENTS, Lleida (ES, 2010).
Curating and programming
Timelessness, Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition, co-curated with Mónica Mendes (AT, 2019); AURA Festival, Sintra: AURA Talks programme (PT, 2019) and curatorial board, with support from the Direção-Geral das Artes (PT, 2020); Post-Screen: International Festival of Art, New Media and Cybercultures, co-coordination of the festival and of the exhibition Unspoken Dialogues, with Clare Strand, Gary Hill, and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (PT, 2014 and 2016).
Selection of exhibitions includes
Periphera Festival 25 at Convento dos Capuchos (PT, 2025); Halaqat at the Goethe-Institut Kairo (EG, 2023); ARTeFACTo Macau (MO, 2022); Taipei Photo Festival (TW, 2020); Palimpsesto, Museu Municipal de Penafiel (PT, 2020); SITUATIONS / The Right to Look, Fotomuseum Winterthur (CH, 2020); Selections from the Seagrave Museum, DAAP Gallery (USA, 2019); Timelessness, Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition (AT, 2019); Athens Photo Festival (GR, 2019); FOREVER/NOW FORMAT19 (UK, 2019); Binary/Non-binary, GESTE Paris (FR, 2018); Immersive | Imersivo, Stereo & Immersive Media 18, SNBA (PT, 2018); Failure is a Given, Archivo Studio (PT, 2017); Face-Value: Personification and Identity in a Post-Digital Age, Liverpool John Moores University (UK, 2016); O Chiado da Dramaturgia e da Performance – Arte na Esfera Pública, Museu Arqueológico do Carmo (PT, 2014); Finalistas, Mestrado em Pintura, Galeria da FBAUL (PT, 2012); XV Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean (GR, 2011); eCREA Prize, EMERGENTS international festival of photography and visual arts (ES, 2010); Jovens Criadores 09, Palácio D. Manuel (PT, 2009); Pandora’s box, BAC!10, International Festival of Contemporary Art (ES, 2009); Finalistas, SNBA (PT, 2008); 3.41, Interpress (PT, 2005).
Selection of publications includes
Ephemeral Maps and Enduring Waste: Tracing Transtopia Through Materiality in Hong Kong, in PROFS – Autores Contemporâneos nos 30 Anos da ESAD.CR (PT, 2024); Ferrofluid experiments, in Halaqat: Lessons for the Future (BE, 2023); From Transtopia to Supertopia, ARTeFACTo Macau, IEEE Xplore (MO, 2022); ARCHIVO Platform 10 Years (PT, 2022); O olhar, a tactilidade e a sua representação em fotografia (with José Bidarra), Revista Invisibilidades (PT, 2021); ARCHIVO Papers Journal: _IMG01: Encoded Replication and Dark Traces of Material Luminescence (PT, 2021); Optical and haptic entanglements, FLAT Journal, UCLA (USA, 2020); 2047, Flanzine (PT); The constant flux of reappropriation, interview with Clare Strand, ARCHIVO (PT, 2017); Post-Screen Research Project: Unspoken Dialogues (PT, 2017), Intermittence + Interference (PT, 2016), and Post-Screen: Device, Medium and Concept (PT, 2014), co-edited; The Object-Photograph: Materiality, Identity and Gesture, CONTEMPHOTO’16, DAKAM (TR, 2016).
Conferences and artist talks about my practice include
ERRAR Photography Conference, Universidade Lusófona, workshop and Research Catalogue exposition (PT, 2026); Periphera Festival 25, Topographies of Erosion (PT, 2025); Tech Art Meet-up, MILL (PT, 2025); ACAH25 (JP, 2025); Encontros25: Festival de Cinema de Viana (PT, 2025); Towards an Automated Art? (PT, 2024); ARTeFACTo Macau (MO, 2022); IBÉRICAS 2020, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (ES, online, 2020); Transtopia Artist Talk, In-Situ and V54 (HK, 2020); #18.ART: Of the admirable order of things: art, emotion and technology, FBAUL (PT, 2019); Waking Life Festival (PT); Stereo & Immersive Media Conference 18, SNBA (PT, 2018); FEMeeting (PT, 2018); The European Conference on Arts & Humanities ECAH2017 (UK, 2017); Seventh Conference on The Image, Liverpool John Moores University (UK, 2016); CONTEMPHOTO’16: International Visual Culture and Contemporary Photography Conference, Istanbul (TR, 2016); Post-Screen: Um projecto de investigação em arte, FBAUL (PT, 2015).
︎CIÊNCIA ID 5D15-D6D7-DE1C
ORCID ID 0000-0002-3096-3794
︎︎︎ PhD in Fine Arts – Photography, Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Universidade de Lisboa (2019), FCT Doctoral Studies Fellowship SFRH/BD/91327/2012;
︎︎︎ Master’s Degree in Fine Arts – Painting, Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Universidade de Lisboa (2011);
︎︎︎ Degree in Fine Arts – Painting, Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Universidade de Lisboa (2007), specialisation in photochemical photography and darkroom practices;
︎︎︎ Image and Movement course, Centro de Imagem e Técnicas Narrativas do Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.
Awards, grants and residencies
Halaqat Media Arts Residency, Bozar, Goethe-Institut, and iMAL, Brussels (BE, 2022), and Goethe-Institut Kairo and Cairotronica, Cairo (EG, 2023), co-funded by the European Union; In-Situ and V54 Artist Residency, Hong Kong (HK, 2020), with a grant from Fundação Oriente; Graduate Scholar Award, Seventh International Conference on The Image, Liverpool John Moores University (UK, 2016); selected to represent Portugal at the XV Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Thessaloniki (GR, 2011); eCREA Prize, EMERGENTS, Lleida (ES, 2010).
Curating and programming
Timelessness, Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition, co-curated with Mónica Mendes (AT, 2019); AURA Festival, Sintra: AURA Talks programme (PT, 2019) and curatorial board, with support from the Direção-Geral das Artes (PT, 2020); Post-Screen: International Festival of Art, New Media and Cybercultures, co-coordination of the festival and of the exhibition Unspoken Dialogues, with Clare Strand, Gary Hill, and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (PT, 2014 and 2016).
Selection of exhibitions includes
Periphera Festival 25 at Convento dos Capuchos (PT, 2025); Halaqat at the Goethe-Institut Kairo (EG, 2023); ARTeFACTo Macau (MO, 2022); Taipei Photo Festival (TW, 2020); Palimpsesto, Museu Municipal de Penafiel (PT, 2020); SITUATIONS / The Right to Look, Fotomuseum Winterthur (CH, 2020); Selections from the Seagrave Museum, DAAP Gallery (USA, 2019); Timelessness, Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition (AT, 2019); Athens Photo Festival (GR, 2019); FOREVER/NOW FORMAT19 (UK, 2019); Binary/Non-binary, GESTE Paris (FR, 2018); Immersive | Imersivo, Stereo & Immersive Media 18, SNBA (PT, 2018); Failure is a Given, Archivo Studio (PT, 2017); Face-Value: Personification and Identity in a Post-Digital Age, Liverpool John Moores University (UK, 2016); O Chiado da Dramaturgia e da Performance – Arte na Esfera Pública, Museu Arqueológico do Carmo (PT, 2014); Finalistas, Mestrado em Pintura, Galeria da FBAUL (PT, 2012); XV Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean (GR, 2011); eCREA Prize, EMERGENTS international festival of photography and visual arts (ES, 2010); Jovens Criadores 09, Palácio D. Manuel (PT, 2009); Pandora’s box, BAC!10, International Festival of Contemporary Art (ES, 2009); Finalistas, SNBA (PT, 2008); 3.41, Interpress (PT, 2005).
Selection of publications includes
Ephemeral Maps and Enduring Waste: Tracing Transtopia Through Materiality in Hong Kong, in PROFS – Autores Contemporâneos nos 30 Anos da ESAD.CR (PT, 2024); Ferrofluid experiments, in Halaqat: Lessons for the Future (BE, 2023); From Transtopia to Supertopia, ARTeFACTo Macau, IEEE Xplore (MO, 2022); ARCHIVO Platform 10 Years (PT, 2022); O olhar, a tactilidade e a sua representação em fotografia (with José Bidarra), Revista Invisibilidades (PT, 2021); ARCHIVO Papers Journal: _IMG01: Encoded Replication and Dark Traces of Material Luminescence (PT, 2021); Optical and haptic entanglements, FLAT Journal, UCLA (USA, 2020); 2047, Flanzine (PT); The constant flux of reappropriation, interview with Clare Strand, ARCHIVO (PT, 2017); Post-Screen Research Project: Unspoken Dialogues (PT, 2017), Intermittence + Interference (PT, 2016), and Post-Screen: Device, Medium and Concept (PT, 2014), co-edited; The Object-Photograph: Materiality, Identity and Gesture, CONTEMPHOTO’16, DAKAM (TR, 2016).
Conferences and artist talks about my practice include
ERRAR Photography Conference, Universidade Lusófona, workshop and Research Catalogue exposition (PT, 2026); Periphera Festival 25, Topographies of Erosion (PT, 2025); Tech Art Meet-up, MILL (PT, 2025); ACAH25 (JP, 2025); Encontros25: Festival de Cinema de Viana (PT, 2025); Towards an Automated Art? (PT, 2024); ARTeFACTo Macau (MO, 2022); IBÉRICAS 2020, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (ES, online, 2020); Transtopia Artist Talk, In-Situ and V54 (HK, 2020); #18.ART: Of the admirable order of things: art, emotion and technology, FBAUL (PT, 2019); Waking Life Festival (PT); Stereo & Immersive Media Conference 18, SNBA (PT, 2018); FEMeeting (PT, 2018); The European Conference on Arts & Humanities ECAH2017 (UK, 2017); Seventh Conference on The Image, Liverpool John Moores University (UK, 2016); CONTEMPHOTO’16: International Visual Culture and Contemporary Photography Conference, Istanbul (TR, 2016); Post-Screen: Um projecto de investigação em arte, FBAUL (PT, 2015).
︎CIÊNCIA ID 5D15-D6D7-DE1C
ORCID ID 0000-0002-3096-3794