Walking with the river

Artist-in-residence Jacira da Conceição and our guests Carolina Pelletier Fontes and Silvia das Fadas will guide us on the first walk of this edition of the Guardians of the Mira Artist Residencies. Together, the three of them will plan a route along one of the banks of the River Mira and explore the relationships between this river, art, cinema and the territory.

Carolina Pelletier Fontes is a cultural manager and curator. With a Master's degree in Curating and Collections from Chelsea College of Arts (London), she has dedicated herself to the production of exhibitions, project management and cultural mediation, particularly in the dialog between Africa and Europe through contemporary art. She currently develops projects for FAS - Forward Art Stories, such as international exhibitions and artist residency programs. Her previous experience includes stints at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice and Galeria Filomena Soares in Lisbon. She has produced exhibitions in collaboration with institutions such as Galerias Municipais de Lisboa and Hangar - Centro de Investigação Artística, and has published articles on the online platform Contemporânea.

Sílvia das Fadas (born Sílvia Salgueiro) is an artist-filmmaker and convivial researcher based in the south of Portugal. She attended the Cinema/Moving Image course at Ar.Co, holds an MFA in Film and Video from CalArts (USA), was a resident artist at Akademie Schloss Solitude and a researcher at the Center for Place Culture and Politics (NY). She has received grants from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, FLAD and FCT, and is a PhD candidate in the PhD-in-Practice program at the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien. Since 2021, she has been making cinematographic and ecological offerings through CINEMA FULGOR, a project with mobile roots in the rural world, in the Alentejo region and beyond. His artistic practice includes research, writing, 16mm films, curating and alternative pedagogies, proposing deviations and metamorphoses from the utopian margins.

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