Docente
Soraya Vasconcelos

Resume

SORAYA VASCONCELOS is a visual artist, Auxiliary Professor at Lusófona University (Lisbon) and researcher at CICANT (Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies). She has a degree in painting, studied photography and philosophy and has a PhD in Communication, Culture and the Arts (2014, UAlg). She was a researcher for the project O Impulso Fotográfico (2019-22; ICNOVA) and co-curator of the resulting exhibition, (Des)Arrumar o Arquivo Colonial (2023; Museum of Natural History and Science). Her artistic practice includes photography, drawing, publishing and installation.

Graus

• Curso de Especialização Tecnológica
  Technical Course in Commercial Photography
• Pós-Graduação
  curricular program of the Master in Philosophy
• Postgraduate Certificate
  Implementing Digital Technology in the Practice of Photography
• Outros
  The Gulbenkian Creativity and Artistic Creation Programme - Photography Course
• Licenciatura
  Fine Arts
• Doutoramento
  PHD in Communication, Culture and Arts

Publicações

Magazine article

• 2018-06, The photographer's eye also suffers from conjunctivitis, (a conversation around the spectrum project), Artecapital (online)

Journal article

• 2024, Repairing colonial violence against women: revisiting "Women Always Present", Revista Vista - Revista de Cultura Visual
• 2024, Expor a pesquisa: os desafios da exposição “O impulso fotográfico. (Des)arrumar o arquivo colonial” no MUHNAC, ICOM Portugal
• 2023-10-26, Daemonicycles, Archivo Papers Journal
• 2016-12, Making sense of darkness: art, sensation and a particular kind of thought process, Aesthetic Investigations

Thesis / Dissertation

• 2014, PhD, Afecto: oscilógrafo do sentido

Book

• 2023, Calhamaço, 1, PIZZ BUIN art collective, Stolen Books
• 2022, Prova do Crime [Proof of Crime], Sessa, Nkaka Bunga; VASCONCELOS, SORAYA, ICNOVA
• 2021, Imagens & Arquivos, Flores, Teresa Mendes; de Souza Correa, Sílvio Marcus; VASCONCELOS, SORAYA, ICNOVA – Instituto de Comunicação da Nova
• 2018, Estação Vernadsky. , 1, Gaudêncio, Susana; VASCONCELOS, SORAYA, Dois Dias Edições
• 2014, Réplica, Reflexão sobre Gravura Contemporânea, 1, VASCONCELOS, SORAYA; COLDWELL, Paul; PALMA, Margarida, Oficina Bartolomeu dos Santos
• 2004, José de Carvalho, Marchand, Bruno, Edição Casa do Sul

Exhibition catalog

• 2023, Propeller #4 - Spectrum, Hélice Press e Galerias Municipais / EGEAC

Preface / Postscript

• 2022, Spectrum, é a poeira que torna o feixe de luz visível [,it is the dust that makes the light beam visible]

Artistic exhibition

• 2024-12, Vermelho Vivo, Amor e Revolução (curadora: Angela Berlinde), Museu da Imagem e do Som Chico Albuquerque
• 2022, Spectrum (Helice photographers collective), Galeria Avenida da Índia, 7 Abr. to 26 Jun., Galerias Municipais de Lisboa, Galeria Avenida da Índia, Galerias Municipais de Lisboa
• 2019, Imagens com Vida Própria [Images with a life of their own] curated by Sandra Vieira Jürgens for BF18, Photography Biennial of Vila Franca de Xira, Fábrica das Palavras, VFX Municipal Library
• 2015, Modos de voar [ways of flying] - Project Room, Art District, Cidadela de Cascais
• 2014, Fumo, poeira, coisa [smoke, dust, thing] , Next Room, curated by Martinho Costa
• 2014, Devorar e não digerir [to devour and not digest] , PHD final show; Trem Galeria Municipal

Visual artwork

• Mulheres Sempre Presentes [Women Always Present] (2022); collaborative artwork produced for the exhibition The Photographic Impulse - (dis)placing the colonial aqruive (MUHNAC/Lisboa)

Curatorial / Museum exhibition

• 2022-12, The Photographic Impulse: (Dis)placing the colonial archive [Final exhibition of the research project at Museum of Science and Natural History, Lisbon (Dec.2022-Jul.2024); this exhibition intends to contribute to the decolonization of musealized heritage and museums, given their important role in the construction of collective history(s) and memory(s), proposing to debate the legacies of colonial]
• 2017-07, Estação Vernadsky [Vernadsky Station]