Mané Pacheco e Susana Mendes Silva

Mané Pacheco (Portalegre, 1978), lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal. Mané Pacheco studied and worked in Nature Conservation before joining FBAUL, where she graduated in Multimedia Arts distinguished with a merit scholarship from the University of Lisbon and the BPI/FBAUL 2010 Award. Both areas of training (art and environment) are manifested in a body of work that expands interdisciplinary and uses the materiality and semiotics of objects to address biological, physiological and sociological aspects of the ecology of relations (of power). In 2010, she was selected for an Artistic Residency ‘Creadores de Iberoamérica y de Haití en México’ as a grant-holder for the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes – CONACULTA, having exhibited in the Museo Diego Rivera-Anahuacalli and in the Centro Cultural de España en México. In the same year, Mané participated in the Landart Cascais Festival and since then she has exhibited there regularly. For most recent individual projects we highlight solo show at PLHK Gallery, partnership with ‘Document Space‘, Chigaco IL, USA; ‘Arco Lisboa 2023’ solo project with Balcony Gallery; (‘Bestas’) at Galeria Francisco Fino, project ‘Belo Campo’; the Bienal Anozero '22 Meia-noite (’Criatura’ and ‘Soft Skilled’); Walk & Talk Azores Festival 2021 (‘Pelágica’) and the individual-dou at Balcony Gallery (‘A naturally false snake’). She also has participated in exhibitions at Culturgest Porto, Internacional Center of Arts José de Guimarães, MU.SA - Museu das Artes de Sintra, Fidelidade Art Space, ‘Arco Madrid 2022’, Berardo Collection Museum, National Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Drawing Room Lisboa’ - SNBA; Galeria Municipal de Almada, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas, Colégio das Artes da Universidade de Coimbra, among others. Mané’s work is represented in several collections, including António Cachola Collection, Norlinda and José Lima Collection Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Portuguese State Contemporary Art Collection, Lisbon City Council Collection, William Allen Word & Image, Galeria Zé dos Bois and Museu das Artes de Sintra.

Susana Mendes Silva (Lisbon, 1972) is a visual artist, performer, assistant professor at the University of Évora, and a board member of AAVP – Associação de Artistas Visuais em Portugal.
Her artistic practice revolves around drawing, installation, performance, research, archiving practice, and, above all, encounters – with the public, with space, with history, and with her peers. This leads to the creation of works whose references become visible in exhibitions, objects, or actions that convey poetic and political messages.
She studied Sculpture at FBAUL and attended the PhD programme in Visual Arts (Studio Based Research) at Goldsmiths College, London, as a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation grant holder. She holds a PhD in Contemporary Art from the Colégio das Artes of the University of Coimbra, with a thesis based on her performative practice Performance as an Intimate Encounter. She is an assistant professor at the University of Évora in the undergraduate programme in Visual Arts and Multimedia and the master's programme in Landscape Architecture. She is also a researcher at CEIS20 / University of Coimbra.