ABOUT ME
I was born in Oporto, Portugal, in 1983. I studied Psychology and worked as trainer and human resources consultant for 5 years. In 2009 I moved to Lisbon to coordinate a project on gender equality in schools, for 4 years, and also to coordinate the cultural program of the Center for Cultural and Feminist Intervention, in Lisbon. At the same time, I was studying Feminist Studies in Coimbra, just until 2011 when I started the Master in Philosophy, about the relation between cinema (Agnès Varda) and politics (Jacques Rancière). I moved to Paris in September 2012 to do an Erasmus of 3 months in Sorbonne University and happens that I stayed for more than a year. That year, I attended Cinema Studies classes, in Paris VII, and I started making videos. Rancière's 'emancipated spectator' approach and its questioning of the duality artist/ spectator contributed to make my first videos. If philosophy opened up the possibility of making videos, at the same time, this videos allowed me to return to the MA thesis of philosophy with new data. In 2013 I was awarded an FCT scholarship to do a PhD in Art Studies, in FCSH - New University of Lisbon, with a research project on the role of rhythm and its analysis in arts, in relation with the social organization. I presented my Phd thesis titled "Vital Rhythm and the gesture of Crossing. The Survivals of Extasis in Cinema" in January 2021. In the context of my research, I did fieldwork in the Andes (Bolivia and Peru), participated in research projects and gave courses in National Arts University of Buenos Aires.
Auto-portrait wrote for a theatre atelier coordinated by Thomas Ferrand, May 2013, Paris:
I love to write about myself as much as I hate it – I’m afraid how the sentences will finish.
Sometimes, I believe in horoscopes. And in psychoanalysis (I don’t know what happens to the universe if I believe both at the same time).
A sentence about myself can be as much true as a sentence that says exactly its opposite (go back to the first line of this text).
I’m always searching for something that I don’t know what it is or if I’m going to find it or even if I will recognise it when and if I find it.
There’s some musics that I never admit that I like.
When I see people alone in the streets, moving their lips, I wonder if I do the same.
I can listen a music over and over again.
When I finally write a book it will be a book only with the titles of all the books that I’m going to write. One of the titles will be “The girl who had just one song in her iPod”.
I miss my parents.
I wonder if someday I’ll have kids of my own that will miss me.
I can be for hours and hours – sometimes days – in my room without going out for more than 20 minutes. Having nothing to do is the best thing to do that I can have.
About all the fields that I studied and worked in - from psychology to gender studies to training to lgbt movement to human resources to cinema to philosophy –; in all of them, I was about to say, I feel that I’m just beggining.
I love to imitate brasilian accent and tell people that on Fridays my name is Solange.
I live between the necessities of being alone and not feeling alone.
One day it will be the last day that I’m going to say “today is the last day that I eat a entire pack of chocolate cookies in 5 minutes”.
Sometimes I do nudism in beaches just to convince myself that my body is just a body is just a body is
There were times when I ate just eggs and pasta because I didn’t have money to buy more food.
When I first came to Paris with just two bags, leaving an all house behind me, I thought I couldn’t live with just that. Now, I believe that I could live without those two bags.
I don’t know in which country I’m going to live within 2 months.
I'm still not sure of what I want to be when I grow up.
I’m 30 years old.
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