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Yuri Firmeza (São Paulo, 1982) is prof. of the Cinema and Audiovisual course of the Federal University of Ceará. He has a PhD in Fine Arts at the University of Lisbon and Master in Visual Poetry at the School of Communication and Arts at the University of São Paulo - funded by a FAPESP research grant. Participated in film festivals and exhibitions in several cities in Brazil and abroad, among them: 11th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre/RS; 64th and 62nd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen/Germany; 31st Bienal de São Paulo/SP; Turvações Estratigráficas, Museum of Art of Rio/RJ, Through the surface of the pages, Boston/USA; Amor e Ódio à Lygia Clark, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw/Poland; Vida da Minha Vida, CCBNB, Fortaleza/CE.

Polliana Dalla Barba (1988, Vitória, Brazil) and graduated in Fine Arts from the Federal University of Espírito Santo (BR). Currently, she lives and works in Porto - PT, where she is a student of the master's degree in Fine Arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts (UP). Her work involves the universe of travel, displacements and landscape. Using media such as drawing, collage, texts, video, photography and installation to create traffic narratives. She has held several collective and solo exhibitions in Brazil, artistic residencies in Latin America and more recently she was awarded at the contest for new artists of the Biennial Foundation of Cerveira, Portugal.

Ana Carolina Rodrigues (1985, Portugal) is a visual artist based in London. Her abstract sculptures, drawings, videos and installations are informed by scientific, poetic and contemporary philosophy, nearly always referencing loss or absence; aiming towards more non-human-centric and ecological concerns. She was recently awarded the Arts Grant by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, creating a project addressing important issues of our era such as pollution, deforestation and climate change. Rodrigues was awarded, by ACAVA, the Doremi/Grizedele Arts residency, creating a sound work in a quarry and gave a talk named “Use of the Voice in Natural Environments”. She received her BA in Fine Art Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Lisbon, and an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts in 2015, receiving the Clifford Chance | UAL sculpture award. She recently exhibited work in Portugal in the show “Ensaio sobre a terra” with an…

April – June 2019