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Conversation on the work of visual artist Louise Bourgeois (Paris, 1911) so as to understand her artistic career and to analyze the construction of her plastic discourse in the North-American art scene.
Date: April 21, 2010 | 12h00-14h00
Venue: video room
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Ana Rito (1978)
Visual artist working on several media and supports – photography, video, sculpture. Author of Casa de Bonecas – Propostas Contemporâneas sobre a Mulher e a Subjectividade (Museu Colecção Berardo: Lisbon, 2009).
Since 2002, her work has featured on several collective exhibitions, namely: The Opposite Direction/Easily Reversible (Galeria ZDB, Lisbon, 2002); VV2 Recycling The Future, 50th Venice Biennial (2003); Faccia Lei (Spazio Thetis, Arsenale Novissimo, Venice, 2007); Beauty and the Beast (Museum Residenzgalerie, Salzburg, 2007); Amália, Coração Independente (Museu Colecção Berardo, 2009). She has also been showcased in the following individual exhibitions: Intensive Care (Módulo - Centro Difusor de Arte, Lisboa, 2002); Melancolia (Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra, 2006); Powerful Acrobat (Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Vienna, 2007) and Puppe Project (Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Vienna, 2010).
In 2009, she has curated, along with Hugo Barata, the exhibition She Is a Femme Fatale, on female artistic practice(s) (CCB, Museu Colecção Berardo, Dec. 2009-Jan. 2010). In April 2010, the 2nd series of this same exhibition has opened in Campus de Caparica, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
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