Introducing our February - March resident, Carla Filipe, presenting her Artistic Residency Project “The journey and its alterities in the identity process” (A viagem e as suas alterabilidades no processo identitário)

(b. 1973), a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Porto, Portugal. Her work operates at the intersection of contemporary art, popular culture, and political activism. Her practice encompasses sculpture, photography, collage, and drawing, with a strong emphasis on drawing and on the transformation of archival materials into socially engaged narratives. Filipe explores themes of territory, property, migration, language, memory, and identity, frequently examining the traces of individual and collective narratives in relation to recent political and economic histories. Research and artistic residencies play an important role in her working process, particularly in connection with her ongoing investigation into the psychogeography of places.

Continuing her research in the field of artist residencies, focused on the experience of place and on psychogeographical relationships within communities — more specifically, within the Portuguese community — this residency aims to create a counterpoint to the artist’s earlier residency at Acme Studios, supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in 2010.