Ana Leitão

artistic research

My artistic practice is linked to the connection between Art and Life. Meaning and
representation of objects in a contemporary context, is what I have been focusing on,
both my speech and work.

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    • “Objects of Affection”

    Residencies / exchange

    • 04-09-2023 t/m 30-09-2023
    • In collaboration with: AMRT (Associação para a Mudança e Representação Transcultural) and NOVA-School of Business and Economics
    • Location: Bairro do Talude - This is a self-built neighborhood mostly composed of families originally from Cape Verde. It has very few businesses, a restaurant, a bar, a “distillery”, and many farms created by the inhabitants. This is an impermanent territory, which is planned to be demolished in the future for urban re-planning, Lisbon
    • PLAY (THE) GROUND is a multidisciplinary residency aimed at listening and exploring situated contexts. This summer we focus on the neighborhoods of Talude and Quinta da Fonte as places of (im)permanence.
    • https://www.instagram.com/p/Cy8Pk-9x9j_/?img_index=1

    family dinner

    Performance

    • 20-03-2019 t/m 01-10-2022
    • In collaboration with: Artist Maria Peixoto Martins & Lenor Sousa
    • Location: Various locations, Lisbon
    • The table is set up with forks, knives, plates and glasses, heavy in body and soul. The proposal relies on some constraints that can inhabit inside any household. It invites performers to have a meal, until the end, in silence
    • https://www.instagram.com/p/CjMKvslNooV/

    Artwork for the choreographic piece "Being's Pertinence"

    Project

    • 01-04-2022 t/m 31-08-2022
    • In collaboration with: Mosca's Theather & Polytechnic Lisbon's Institute
    • Location: Polytechnic Lisbon's Institute, Lisbon and Madeira's Island
    • 'The Pertinence of Beings', a choreographic project based on the literary work 'A Contradição Humana', by Afonso Cruz. I was invited to produce the props to be used by the performers.
    • https://www.instagram.com/p/CeyXLvgAcLI/

    "Instruction's Manual"

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 30-11-2023
    • In collaboration with: Artist Maria Peixoto Martins
    • Location: Vieira da Silva's Gallery, Lisbon
    • The project aims to the absurdity and irony. It is a guide-book-like that through photographs and text explains the viewer how to use six different objects that you can often find in bathrooms. The project was presented Jov'arte Bienal and was honored with the 1st prize.

    Acknowledgments

      Collection

    • Vieira da Silva's Municipal Gallery

    • 2021, Portugal, Lisbon
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      Publication

    • "Um Do Li Tá: Maria Peixoto Martins and Rita Leitão at the Vieira da Silva Municipal Gallery"

    • 2022
    • Arts and Culture- Exhibition Review
    • Umbigo Magazine - Laurinda Marques