"Ways of Seeing, Ways of Telling": Image and archive workshop
This workshop offers a practical reflection on photography, family memory and personal narratives, based on the exhibition Mais Alto by artist Margarida Correia, dedicated to the Portuguese paratroop nurses who served in Africa during the Colonial War.
The project focuses on the experiences of these women, exploring their daily lives, the bonds they formed and the stories that unfolded against the backdrop of war, with all its inherent tensions, proximities and ambiguities.
The workshop includes a guided tour of the exhibition led by the artist and a theoretical introduction by anthropologist Maria José Lobo Antunes, inviting participants to reflect on different ways of viewing and interpreting images over time.
In the practical session, participants will work with photographs and personal objects selected and brought by themselves, exploring narratives, absences and meanings, and creating short photo-biographies. The workshop concludes with a collective sharing of the interpretations and stories developed.
Requirement: Participants should bring a small selection of photographs and personal objects with them for the practical part of the activity.
Useful information
Dates: 27 July
Time: 15.00–19.00
Target audience: Students and professionals in the visual arts, history, sociology, anthropology, archiving, photography and other fields; anyone with a curiosity about or interest in the subject
Language: Portuguese
Capacity: max. 18 participantes
Location: MAAT Central
Prices:
- General admission: € 15
- MAAT Friends and students (upon presentation of a valid card): € 11,25
Margarida Correia was born in Lisbon in 1972, where she currently lives and works in Lisbon. She completed a degree in Painting from FBAUL and obtained a Master's degree in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York. She held her first solo exhibition, Shining, at FBAUL in 1998.
More recently, she presented New World at Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, at the EDP Foundation, at the São João da Madeira Art Centre, and at Real Art Ways in Hartford (USA); Things at Galeria 111 in Porto and Lisbon, and at AIR Gallery in New York; Junk, Voyeur Project View in Lisbon; Saudade, at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids and at Real Art Ways in Hartford (USA). She has participated in group exhibitions at White Columns, Exit Art, Bronx Museum of The Arts, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, Centre for Photography at Woodstock, Dorsky Gallery, ABC No Rio (New York); the Griffin Museum of Photography (Winchester), the Print Center (Philadelphia), the Photographic Centre Northwest (Seattle), the Toledo Museum of Art, the Vermont Centre for Photography (USA), Gallery 44 (Canada) and the Cokkie Snoei Gallery (Netherlands). She has also exhibited at the EDP Foundation, Belém Cultural Centre, Espaço Novo Banco, ZDB Gallery, and Porto Municipal Gallery in Portugal.
She has received grants from the AIR Gallery (New York), the Puffin Foundation (New Jersey), the Joyce Elaine Photography Grant (Texas), the Aaron Siskind Foundation (New York); and the Camões Institute, DGArtes, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Luso-American Foundation, Portuguese Centre of Photography, and the Foundation for Science and Technology in Portugal. Her work is represented in the public collections of the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Camera Club of New York, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Grover Collection at Yale University, Real Art Ways (USA), and in the Américo Marques Collection, EDP Foundation, Novo Banco Collection, PLMJ Foundation, and MUDAS Collection (Portugal).
Maria José Lobo Antunes holds a PhD in Anthropology and is an Associate Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. Her work focuses on Portuguese colonialism and the war waged in its defence, drawing on anthropology, history and visual culture. She is currently researching the close relationships between Portuguese troops and Angolan civilian populations during the conflict. She was in charge of the project Imagem, Guerra e Memória, which collected the ethnographic and visual material on which the exhibition A Guerra Guardada. Fotografia de soldados portugueses em Angola, Guiné-Bissau e Moçambique (1961–1974) was based and which she curated (Aljube Museum, 2022). She is the author of Regressos quase perfeitos. Memórias da guerra em Angola and co-editor of the book A Guerra Guardada, both published by Tinta-da-China.