Patricia Pinheiro de Sousa

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Patrícia Pinheiro de Sousa is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
She works with multiple mediums and disciplines, such as video, text-based works, performance, sound and self-published books.
Her work users fictional elements and everyday life, in combination with her own writing, recorded voice and subtle subversiveness. The artist's latest films are often experimental, presented as short documentaries where archive and historical material is intertwined with fictional elements.

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    • The Red Line at Outbuilding/s, South Explorer

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 20-06-2020 t/m 21-06-2020
    • In collaboration with: South Explorer, Outbuildings
    • Location: Wilewaal, Charlois, Rotterdam
    • Outbuilding/s is a project by Wilma Kun, Bérénice Staiger and Kathrin Wolkowicz. Participating artists: Wilma Kun, Niki Murphy, Patrícia Pinheiro de Sousa, Bérénice Staiger and Heyer Thurnheer.

    Screening: New Stories from the South, at Diversions International Short Film Festival

    Exhibition / presentation

    The Ultra Atlantic Blue

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 04-12-2020 t/m 14-03-2021
    • In collaboration with: See Lad
    • Location: See Lab, Scheveningen, Scheveningen
    • The Ultra Atlantic Blue is the name of a fictional blue pigment, whose production is only possible by harvesting a particular mineral deep in the Atlantic Ocean. It is also the title of the exhibition that brings together the most recent works of Patricia Pinheiro de Sousa. The works present fictional scenarios, outlined by the exploitation of mineral resources seen from historical and economical perspectives.

    Acknowledgments

      Scholarship

    • Visual Arts Grant 2005/2006, Fundación Marcelino Botín, Spain

    • 2005
      Scholarship

    • Scholarship MFA- Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Portugal

    • 2011
      Pricing

    • Young Painters Fidelidade Mundial Prize (nominated and acquired), Lisbon

    • 2007
      Collection

    • PLMJ Foundation

    • 2005, Lisbon, Portugal
      Collection

    • Rothschild Private Bank

    • 2004, Lisbon, Portugal
      Collection

    • Fundacion Marcelino Botin

    • 2007, Spain
      Publication

    • From the Bottom of the Chin to the Top of the Head

    • 2011
    • artist book
    • Dutch Art Institute ArtEZ - Patrícia Sousa, texts by Sophie Nield and Raqs Media Collective