I am a visual artist working with ecologies of knowledge and representation. My practice examines how texts and images (discourses) interact with natural and cultural environments. I am interested in how discourses emerge from specific historical contexts and create the epistemic frameworks that define our identities and social imaginaries. Viewing this research as a political task, my work points to the material consequences of visual and verbal regimes, showing how they change social relations and ecological systems.
My research-based practice is grounded in theory and an interdisciplinary interest. This approach, sensible to the artistic production of knowledge and its articulation with other disciplines, leads me to engage with concepts from anthropology, economics, and the natural sciences. The choice of methodologies, while reacting to the content and aesthetics of each subject, is strongly influenced by visual culture, deconstruction, and a critique of ideology.
The subjects of my research extend beyond traditional disciplinary categories, organized instead through analogy. These range from free markets to grammar to the representation of dinosaurs, etc. I work with various media — such as video installations, 3D animation, and drawing — and often draw from specialized visual materials like diagrams, maps, and illustrations.
In recent years, I have been working on the discourses of mainstream economics, especially on how the discipline operates between its normative and descriptive functions. By looking at economics as a mythology — one that is the foundational narrative of Homo economicus — I deconstruct the underlying ideas of human nature, political organization, and culture embedded in economic theory. This work challenges claims to scientific objectivity and critically examines how economics-as-ideology destroys the possibilities for alternatives to contemporary capitalism.
Besides my artistic practice, I co-programmed Art & Anthropology, a series of film screenings at the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich. I was the founder and co-curator of Dietikon Projektraum, a contemporary art space addressing local and global narratives. In 2020, I co-curated al_vista, the exhibition space from Fine Arts at ZHdK.
I was born in Lisbon in 1991. I studied architecture and visual arts in Lisbon, Tampere, and Rome. In 2021, I finished my master’s in Fine Arts at ZHdK in Zurich, where I currently live.