TheSpaceInYourHead

Researcher at the Art and Design Research Institute (University of Porto) and the Aesthetics and Art Theory Group at the Faculty of Philosophy (University of Salamanca).

Exhibits regularly in galleries (Graça Brandão, Marta Vidal, Porto; João Graça in Lisbon) and museum institutions (Museu de Serralves, Porto; Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon; Museu do Chiado, Lisbon; Culturgest, Lisbon; Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon; Centro Galego de Arte Contemporânea, Santiago de Compostela. Have participated in biennials and international exhibitions (IX Sharjah Biennial, 2009; III Ibero-American Biennial of Contemporary Art, Lima, Peru, 2002; Pontevedra Biennial 1998; ARCO) and in exhibitions in cities such as: Salamanca (‘La memoria es un dispositivo para anular la distancia’, Espacio de Arte Experimental, 2022); East Jerusalem – occupied Palestine (Qalandyia International, Open Gallery, ‘Fear’, Palestinian Art Court, 2016); Seydisfjordur, Iceland (‘untitled [speechless], 2012); Rio de Janeiro (’Sobre ilhas e pontes‘, Galeria Candido Portinari, 2010); Berlin (’Die Anthologie der Kunst‘, 2004); Barcelona (’Sem gerações‘, Momentos da vídeo arte portuguesa contemporânea’, 2004); Glasgow (‘Plano XXI – Portuguese Contemporary Art’, 2000); Budapest (‘Young & Serious’, 1999); Frankfurt (“Grenzüberschneidugen”, 1997); Amiens (‘Hors catalogue, un projet Gulbenkian a propos de sa collection’, 1996) and Ghent (Europália 91). Have had solo exhibitions in Nantes (artist in residence ‘Please to meet you’, 1996); La Coruña (Fundación Luis Seoane, 1998); Santiago de Compostela (Auditório de Galicia, 2004 and CGAC 2011); Coimbra (Colégio das Artes, Coimbra, 2015); Santo Tirso (International Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, 2018); Porto (João Espregueira Mendes Contemporary Art Room, 2021); Vila Franca de Xira [Museum of Neo-Realism, 2024). He has taken part in film festivals (Family Film Project, Porto, 2024); (Art Directions: sound/vision at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam, 2023); (Festival Internacional do Filme Etnográfico do Recife, Brazil, 2021); (Filmóptico, Art Visual and Film Festival, Barcelona, Catalonia, 2021); (Latino and Iberian Film Festival at Yale – LIFFY, United States; 2020); (Porto PostDoc, Portugal; 2018); (Incuna International Film Festival, Gijón, Spain; 2017).

Has released records under his own name and as part of the Haarvöl collective on labels like (Moving Furniture Records, Amsterdam); (Innovo, Thessaloniki); (ERS records, Rotterdam); (Cronica Electronica, Porto).

His works are in public collections: Serralves Museum; Institute of Contemporary Art; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation;  Galician Centre for Contemporary Art; Santiago de Compostela; Lisbon City Museum; PLMJ Collection; Ilídio Pinho Foundation; University of Porto; Porto City Council Collection and State Collection (CACE).