https://anasantos.eu Ana Santos Wed, 25 Jan 2023 17:37:41 +0000 https://anasantos.eu en https://anasantos.eu/Overview Wed, 25 Jan 2023 17:37:41 +0000 Ana Santos https://anasantos.eu/Overview &nbsp; Installed on August 11, 2026, on the floating platform at Insola Berlin in Rummelsburg Bay (Rummelsburger See), Metabolic Drift intervenes directly in the metabolic infrastructure of Berlin’s urban ecosystem. Stretching 1.6 kilometers along the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district near Ostkreuz station, Rummelsburg Bay operates as a kind of collective “gut”: a site where organic, industrial, and domestic matter circulates, accumulates, decomposes, and is transformed. The landscape of the bay is marked by sharp socio ecological contradictions. Along its perimeter, gentrified domestic life, families on scenic balconies, joggers, and permanently moored leisure boats, some functioning as homes and inhabited by people, coexist with the fragile ecosystems of the Kratzbruch and Liebesinsel nature reserves. Within this same hydrological landscape, Eurasian coots and grey herons inhabit the water alongside proliferating cyanobacterial blooms (Blaualgen), whose dense pea green surface is associated with elevated nutrient and phosphate levels and stagnant water. Drawing on Jane Bennett’s conception of vibrant matter, objects found directly from the riverbed, including a discarded suitcase, a baby walker, and a wheelchair, are brought onto the floating platform and treated as material actants: entities capable of participating in and altering the processes around them. Removed from the functions for which they were designed, these objects begin to perform in ways otherwise unintended .&nbsp; The heavy displacement waves generated by passing commercial vessels interact with gusts of wind, storms, and water currents, causing the objects to roll, collide, shift, and repeatedly reconfigure their positions. In these encounters these objects obstruct, drift, collide, gather, support, and occasionally create temporary structures for other forms of life. Please note: To watch the video in the best quality, please select 1080p in the settings tab. 2026 Public Installation Artists Ana Santos and William Winter Music&nbsp; Dust Devices — Surface Level &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <img width="1600" height="1250" width_o="1600" height_o="1250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a362727e635eaa52eaeff18db6ae197e915c0285e874fccff23ce9f4eb0a302d/WhatsApp-Image-2026-07-07-at-12.51.28.jpeg" data-mid="250177787" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a362727e635eaa52eaeff18db6ae197e915c0285e874fccff23ce9f4eb0a302d/WhatsApp-Image-2026-07-07-at-12.51.28.jpeg" /> <img width="1600" height="1250" width_o="1600" height_o="1250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/78947d26f5d07612a6e6d94cbd696a0dc00a07949e683cb619f5d8da60fabd82/WhatsApp-Image-2026-07-06-at-14.47.43.jpeg" data-mid="250177781" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/78947d26f5d07612a6e6d94cbd696a0dc00a07949e683cb619f5d8da60fabd82/WhatsApp-Image-2026-07-06-at-14.47.43.jpeg" /> <img width="1600" height="1250" width_o="1600" height_o="1250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2adba32d074e40744c5938d21be2621bb07287d30f5d232865cd421ed928272e/WhatsApp-Image-2026-07-07-at-12.51.28.jpeg" data-mid="250177782" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2adba32d074e40744c5938d21be2621bb07287d30f5d232865cd421ed928272e/WhatsApp-Image-2026-07-07-at-12.51.28.jpeg" /> <img width="1536" height="2048" width_o="1536" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e58c103983be0c721bcc9881d553fa1378fe3dc000bd4db91d2ae306ff218ee2/WhatsApp-Image-2026-07-07-at-j.jpeg" data-mid="250177902" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e58c103983be0c721bcc9881d553fa1378fe3dc000bd4db91d2ae306ff218ee2/WhatsApp-Image-2026-07-07-at-j.jpeg" /> <img width="1536" height="2048" width_o="1536" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/92427cb2420ddcdd80af95c5c7f64fca6b0d761be9b274c302f38b5617b4af9d/WhatsApp-Image-2026-07-07-at-13.11.04.jpeg" data-mid="250177903" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/92427cb2420ddcdd80af95c5c7f64fca6b0d761be9b274c302f38b5617b4af9d/WhatsApp-Image-2026-07-07-at-13.11.04.jpeg" /> Küchen Kabine How do the objects we consider waste continue to affect, interact with, and transform our environment?In a city shaped by constant change, Küchen Kabine investigates the hidden life cycles of urban waste materials. The project emerged from the observation that Berlin neighborhoods undergoing transformation often leave behind typical German sanitary ceramics. These objects were once part of private domestic spaces and are now removed, frequently because their original design is no longer considered suitable or desirable.Küchen Kabine transforms these reclaimed objects into new, functional tableware. The material undergoes a careful ceramic process, including selection, professional cleaning and disinfection, cutting, reshaping, high-temperature firing, glazing, and finishing. What was once part of an intimate domestic infrastructure re-enters circulation within a shared social space.Small portions of sauces prepared by us from sustainable, regional, or surplus ingredients are served on these vessels. Visitors are invited to taste them, turning the act of sampling into a participatory exploration of matter transformation.The project reflects on the vitality of materials and the entanglement of human and non-human forces.&nbsp; It subtly questions culturally shaped categories such as clean and dirty, inside and outside, private and public. By transforming these objects into functional ceramic artworks, the boundary between waste, utility, and aesthetic value is playfully renegotiated. The project is designed to be itinerant across the city while embracing multiple formats. 2026 Public Installation Artist William Winter Ceramics William Winter Curator Ana Santos1st Presentation48 stunden neukölln 2026 with the support of&nbsp; Bürgerstiftung Neukölln <img width="1417" height="1912" width_o="1417" height_o="1912" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4d3ebfe174f76727deea23076d3679e2fd56cd3beeed4fb20d5736f21601c381/IMG_0517.JPEG" data-mid="222619068" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4d3ebfe174f76727deea23076d3679e2fd56cd3beeed4fb20d5736f21601c381/IMG_0517.JPEG" /> <img width="1445" height="1910" width_o="1445" height_o="1910" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6f882ac76931f0bb2d4377239b72e81acfc12fa0a4973f3882f46e0cda8cefb2/IMG_0515.JPEG" data-mid="222619136" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6f882ac76931f0bb2d4377239b72e81acfc12fa0a4973f3882f46e0cda8cefb2/IMG_0515.JPEG" /> <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5d28505f4e0dd1a3216f8eedab7c2d5e16216a92d6291dd2f0b3214b69ec1602/Natal--Ano-Novo.png" data-mid="222616859" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5d28505f4e0dd1a3216f8eedab7c2d5e16216a92d6291dd2f0b3214b69ec1602/Natal--Ano-Novo.png" /> <img width="1634" height="1536" width_o="1634" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f6b2a8c8066fef6ccc31a0f1afbcf7c4c37820f0a6f4ca6c808948d212bf5dd2/IMG_0502.JPEG" data-mid="222619042" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f6b2a8c8066fef6ccc31a0f1afbcf7c4c37820f0a6f4ca6c808948d212bf5dd2/IMG_0502.JPEG" /> Ein Stück Land (1) In the Ein Stück Land installation, the kitchen stands out as a space for dialogue and debate, referencing the role of Brazilian kitchens, where gatherings around the table foster discussion and the sharing of various topics. In a non-linear conversational tone, the work reflects on German migration to Brazil, with the voices of five people who can be heard through the kitchen table. These voices offer complementary perspectives on the subject. The interviews intertwine the viewpoints of Telma Schrader (a writer with a family history of German migration), Carmen Miranda (a Brazilian historian residing in Berlin), Willian Radüz (a researcher in the field of linguistics between Portuguese and German), Paulo Soethe (an academic specializing in literary influences in German-Brazilian relations), and Glauco Vaz Feijó (an academic specializing in Brazilian migration to Germany). Together, these voices address issues such as the impact of the modernization project on the displacement and assimilation of inhabitants, the role of emigrants in political transformations, and the forms of resistance that have emerged over time. (2) In the hall, a mound of soil is presented, with the voice of Gustavo Gusmão reciting a text written by me, inspired by the ideas of Bruno Latour, particularly from his book Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime. The text reflects on the notion of a “common ground” and the existential and political crisis we face due to the loss of a shared space. This reflection connects with Carmen Guerreiro’s statement in the audio heard in the kitchen: “We are all looking for a safe land. But where is this land?”. Considering the political, environmental, and migratory contours generated by these changes — not only of human beings, but also of other species — the installation proposes a critical reflection on the ongoing modernization project, whose consequences remain unpredictable. Audio Interviews (1) : Click Here Fabulative audio Ein Stück Land (2): Click Here 2024 Audiovisual Installation Concept and text Ana Santos Artistic Assistance,&nbsp;Textual interpretation and Voice Gustavo Gusmão In context of the event “ 200 Jahre Deutsche Einwanderung in Brasilien”organized and presented in Forum Brasil, Berlin <img width="3120" height="4160" width_o="3120" height_o="4160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2bdef86721f84c4ed9d2dcf8476343b728555378a095e3f973d085daff554323/IMG_20220610_154425.jpg" data-mid="166004432" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2bdef86721f84c4ed9d2dcf8476343b728555378a095e3f973d085daff554323/IMG_20220610_154425.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/df3af66d47112fe98c7fa26af6b23498c3b135d80f70feb9166e3864850c8d9e/20220611_192115-1.jpg" data-mid="166004464" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/df3af66d47112fe98c7fa26af6b23498c3b135d80f70feb9166e3864850c8d9e/20220611_192115-1.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cd374ff8601f3c03efa4546fb2fa75747729ab37fd581c0ca4f0866c47915251/20220611_192128-1.jpg" data-mid="166004430" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cd374ff8601f3c03efa4546fb2fa75747729ab37fd581c0ca4f0866c47915251/20220611_192128-1.jpg" /> <img width="2480" height="3508" width_o="2480" height_o="3508" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/49df8933a7ac70d46eb756e1fa902d5930f5ee4d030fbedf1e8c95d8dcdd75a3/Untitled-2.png" data-mid="205838585" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/49df8933a7ac70d46eb756e1fa902d5930f5ee4d030fbedf1e8c95d8dcdd75a3/Untitled-2.png" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d6231374fdf592a978c6284cfa716409b5c5209abe98a4e4a27671096a336d46/20220611_191306-1.jpg" data-mid="166004450" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d6231374fdf592a978c6284cfa716409b5c5209abe98a4e4a27671096a336d46/20220611_191306-1.jpg" /> <img width="3120" height="4160" width_o="3120" height_o="4160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/06e72ebb172dd748eaa013472e0efc06c8ff868506088737b3e730aa3a6e58b1/IMG_20220609_205621.jpg" data-mid="166004434" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/06e72ebb172dd748eaa013472e0efc06c8ff868506088737b3e730aa3a6e58b1/IMG_20220609_205621.jpg" /> <img width="3885" height="3024" width_o="3885" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b14f4f85e7ae54c10914d121422b32c10b4bccd1eef2aba5f4a9d608db4fc4e/20220611_191810-1.jpg" data-mid="166004438" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0b14f4f85e7ae54c10914d121422b32c10b4bccd1eef2aba5f4a9d608db4fc4e/20220611_191810-1.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/321127d8fbbb8ee774b75fccbe8c8a17998d06a609c4e6a98ae5be030b8aba8f/Sem-Ttulo.png" data-mid="168928417" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/321127d8fbbb8ee774b75fccbe8c8a17998d06a609c4e6a98ae5be030b8aba8f/Sem-Ttulo.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ed405dc9fc12eb4e783ed995d067080687f4e30315f9d49f18ffb7c5c1061193/l.png" data-mid="168928392" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ed405dc9fc12eb4e783ed995d067080687f4e30315f9d49f18ffb7c5c1061193/l.png" /> Bodies of Experience Bodies of Experience is an audiovisual installation that unfolds through a long-term collaboration with Paula and her training to run again, an amputee woman and founder of ANAMP (Associação Nacional de Amputados). Born from fieldwork and performative co-creation, the project explores how prosthetic embodiment generates new forms of presence, identity, and resistance. It reflects on the prosthesis as a relational thing, both intimate and political, that reconfigures how the body inhabits space, memory, and time. Drawing from a hybrid methodology between contemporary art and anthropology, Bodies of Experience investigates the sensory, affective, and rhythmic entanglements between the organic and the technological. The installation weaves together video, sound, and personal testimony to compose a landscape of divergent corpoability, where looking, slowness, and the juxtaposition of elements become modes of radical attention. The work invites the viewer into an open, porous dialogue, a space to feel with, rather than look at. In doing so, Paula’s training exercises resist dominant narratives of cure and normality, opening instead to fabulations, care practices, and alternative rhythms of becoming.Previously the project was developed and presented in a residence context at Cultivamos Cultura. &gt; access to Exercício II full video upon request 2022 Audiovisual Installation Sound Claúdio Oliveira Performance Paula Cristina Acknowledgments National Association of Amputees (ANAMP) Founded by Calouste Gulbenkian List of works&nbsp; .Exercício I .Exercício II Interview CRIAções <img width="3120" height="4160" width_o="3120" height_o="4160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bcaf138ef991835d51f42c1a4fcf34a6f6ca285bdaaf2e475f1cb0950fe59715/IMG_20220401_163501.jpg" data-mid="166003054" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bcaf138ef991835d51f42c1a4fcf34a6f6ca285bdaaf2e475f1cb0950fe59715/IMG_20220401_163501.jpg" /> <img width="3120" height="4160" width_o="3120" height_o="4160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c659532160748d3b14ef35ca182f86c69080e38e0943602c58353dd8385abafa/IMG_20220401_163742.jpg" data-mid="166357684" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c659532160748d3b14ef35ca182f86c69080e38e0943602c58353dd8385abafa/IMG_20220401_163742.jpg" /> <img width="2162" height="2833" width_o="2162" height_o="2833" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/407b6da437e61d09bdefa06239e8022613e9aec2894a10e097941c157d1bf6b7/IMG_20220401_155738_website.jpg" data-mid="167417602" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/407b6da437e61d09bdefa06239e8022613e9aec2894a10e097941c157d1bf6b7/IMG_20220401_155738_website.jpg" /> <img width="2457" height="3219" width_o="2457" height_o="3219" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b28e600760a17248b110dd5cdef8850d45fdcfd143913df27d8ac3b22da04d01/IMG_20220401_155738-.jpg" data-mid="167417017" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b28e600760a17248b110dd5cdef8850d45fdcfd143913df27d8ac3b22da04d01/IMG_20220401_155738-.jpg" /> Moscopólis:&nbsp; ensaio de orientação civilizacional In agreement with the very structure found within the laboratory, the artists noticed a whole architecture of spatial organization surrounding the fly colonies themselves - comparative to a production factory. They then realized that there were certain parallels to what we, as a society, generally recognized as aspects of civilization's organization [small spaces, in the form of pipettes, in which small "families" live, having as their primary condition reproduction instigated with the excess of resources through food, which, in its absence, turns into death. Moscópolis became an essay on the choice and reorientation of these flies. We were interested in understanding what decisions the drosophila flies would make when faced with new environments, different partners, different foods, and the option to be alone or accompanied. From the local to the global, this project instigates us to think about the architectural orderings themselves, the geopolitical strategic reorientations, which are also thoughts of simulation to domestication, as a rationalization of food, in the right to territory or in the management of the ecology of space. The use of everyday materials proposes to think of its own excess, as well as and, in counterpoint, alters the logic of sophistication and scientific apparatus found in laboratories. Most of the materials we used in this piece were found in the institution's trash. The project was developed within a scientific institution, which studied drosophila flies for a long period of time for specific reasons regarding the results they wanted. ︎there was no suffering implied Various recycled plastics, Drosophila flies, iron,&nbsp; recycled tubes, light. 2022 Installation Colaboration with Paulo Bernardino Bastos Residency Copraxis Acknowledgments Carlos Conde, Nelson Leça, Mariana Gonçalves, Sofia Silva, Augusta Monteiro, Margarida Gonçalves, Mariana Osswald Hosted on i3s Porto and Ectopia Lisbon Founded by Garantir Cultura Programme&nbsp; &nbsp; <img width="2848" height="4272" width_o="2848" height_o="4272" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fdcdb4e42b369c71f02b8d6566d337d5b5d91ccd87f565f34234cb53e7595ab3/IMG_4414.jpg" data-mid="166305468" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fdcdb4e42b369c71f02b8d6566d337d5b5d91ccd87f565f34234cb53e7595ab3/IMG_4414.jpg" /> <img width="2848" height="4272" width_o="2848" height_o="4272" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e7b55897f44a789d9e676d5a6f035b2ffc14671afb89cb190a0efde9784429fa/IMG_4381.jpg" data-mid="166305623" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e7b55897f44a789d9e676d5a6f035b2ffc14671afb89cb190a0efde9784429fa/IMG_4381.jpg" /> <img width="2848" height="4272" width_o="2848" height_o="4272" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e8670afd5a9e8a1271519a809e65957e29cb603282b3b79eee761a8acf390263/IMG_4387.jpg" data-mid="166339315" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e8670afd5a9e8a1271519a809e65957e29cb603282b3b79eee761a8acf390263/IMG_4387.jpg" /> <img width="2395" height="2848" width_o="2395" height_o="2848" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2a885ba05590b849e77f2897ab2b06051c7d30554e270a3c57496882f5ce485e/IMG_4425_.jpg" data-mid="166339320" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2a885ba05590b849e77f2897ab2b06051c7d30554e270a3c57496882f5ce485e/IMG_4425_.jpg" /> <img width="3667" height="2444" width_o="3667" height_o="2444" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/475267d8d0373895babea4a4ed0fab265c5b28dd0a3821a75f9b3964ccac6a6c/1.jpg" data-mid="166339349" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/475267d8d0373895babea4a4ed0fab265c5b28dd0a3821a75f9b3964ccac6a6c/1.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2666" width_o="4000" height_o="2666" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a2b190b823f43564551eaee1a07bc8b7f9ebe2461c9ad8ba84bf0febfc60ed35/7.jpg" data-mid="166305573" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a2b190b823f43564551eaee1a07bc8b7f9ebe2461c9ad8ba84bf0febfc60ed35/7.jpg" /> <img width="2848" height="4272" width_o="2848" height_o="4272" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e859f0e4b7c1b996fb418ac7f60f544a1421281c1d25c021490bc2fa2e027a16/IMG_4396.jpg" data-mid="166305548" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e859f0e4b7c1b996fb418ac7f60f544a1421281c1d25c021490bc2fa2e027a16/IMG_4396.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2666" width_o="4000" height_o="2666" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1307ef50546e338eb0233822229d2b9fd2ae4a70bff08c1f7452c84f23ea90e0/3.jpg" data-mid="166305571" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1307ef50546e338eb0233822229d2b9fd2ae4a70bff08c1f7452c84f23ea90e0/3.jpg" /> Construção Series The Construction Series artworks depict the artist's upbringing with a father who was a construction worker. By utilizing discovered items, remnants of materials, and tools, the artist narrates her connection with her father and the construction field. These creations mirror the artist's endeavor to reconcile her personal passions with societal gender norms. Additionally, the artworks delve into the notion of identity formation, influenced by our surroundings and interpersonal relationships. Through the use of objects that hold sentimental value to the artist, the works establish a story that is both particular to the artist's experiences and universally relatable. wood, light, iron, treadmill, textiles, sandpapers 2017&nbsp;Installation List of works .3.14159265359 .Fuark!!Spasm!!Death!! .I am Trojan .Fúria <img width="1366" height="768" width_o="1366" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e39ef4cbc193867ccd062b30e5548beea75216364bb8ff15b3f876a3fd878b4a/Sem-Ttulo2.png" data-mid="166305997" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e39ef4cbc193867ccd062b30e5548beea75216364bb8ff15b3f876a3fd878b4a/Sem-Ttulo2.png" /> (estou-me) A lixar "Polishing and vanishing leave only dust; memories fade to nothingness." This video performance seamlessly incorporates the BodyConstruction Series by having the performer sand her own body in a ritualistic and repetitive manner, mirroring the act of sanding the furniture. &nbsp; The repetitive gesture of sanding creates a pattern of abrasions and roughness that contrasts with the smooth, polished surface of the furniture. This contrast highlights the inherent tactile qualities of the body, emphasizing its organic nature and inviting the viewer to engage with it on a visceral level. &nbsp; The repetitive and ritualistic nature of the sanding creates a distinct sound that is both abrasive and rhythmic. As the performer sands their body, the sound of the sandpaper against their skin creates a scraping noise that is amplified by the performance space's acoustics. This sound adds a layer of tension and discomfort to the artwork, emphasizing the physical toll of the sanding on the performer's body. &gt;acess to full video upon request &nbsp; 2017&nbsp;Video Performance <img width="1280" height="1707" width_o="1280" height_o="1707" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cead09e38c31e945d33fd10190bac6666546c366104994de8a54a3caf20a8c2c/tumblr_ns7ejm5zNC1silinto1_1280.jpg" data-mid="166306639" border="0" data-scale="49" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cead09e38c31e945d33fd10190bac6666546c366104994de8a54a3caf20a8c2c/tumblr_ns7ejm5zNC1silinto1_1280.jpg" /><img width="1568" height="2352" width_o="1568" height_o="2352" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bf4a1435398d79d8dfd6c12bee4bd79dd040122c9cf5fadf4c6864e52779d5d9/_MG_3107a.jpg" data-mid="166306530" border="0" data-scale="49" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bf4a1435398d79d8dfd6c12bee4bd79dd040122c9cf5fadf4c6864e52779d5d9/_MG_3107a.jpg" /> Sinalizações Series This series delves into the meanings of common space signs and signage. The artwork creates illuminated signs with unconventional meanings or orders, while also exploring light and images in superposition through an installation. &nbsp;Signs are a means of conveying a message or an order, used to inform, warn, guide, direct, or control people. The signs act as a visual language, a code that helps to communicate messages in a concise and direct way. Through this artwork, the artist creates a space for reflection on the power of signs and the role they play in our lives. By reimagining common signs with unconventional meanings, the artwork questions the ways in which we use visual language to communicate ideas and messages. The exploration of light and images in superposition further emphasizes this reflection, drawing attention to the ways in which meaning can be layered and complex. acrylic, light, canvas, iron 2015&nbsp;Installation List of works .CROSSdresser .Pontos e referências de contenção e fuga <img width="2048" height="1367" width_o="2048" height_o="1367" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7cd6207bc7871d2dc1b242d2d804a638c91c3789a23e9eb6373db5307a340ff5/508191265_10022548301195503_4731034940799996382_n.jpg" data-mid="239465172" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7cd6207bc7871d2dc1b242d2d804a638c91c3789a23e9eb6373db5307a340ff5/508191265_10022548301195503_4731034940799996382_n.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1367" width_o="2048" height_o="1367" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d59d38899bbf25e3253aee638b9aadb70b7ccf3bb1175e167a4697ea84b716e4/508388059_10022548397862160_2456792935167803307_n.jpg" data-mid="239465175" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d59d38899bbf25e3253aee638b9aadb70b7ccf3bb1175e167a4697ea84b716e4/508388059_10022548397862160_2456792935167803307_n.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1367" width_o="2048" height_o="1367" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e4eafd1765fb891da56c541582ee4b44b21719fc678240ca99463f8c8d34a5d4/508333299_10022548407862159_9038096031392192363_n.jpg" data-mid="239465174" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e4eafd1765fb891da56c541582ee4b44b21719fc678240ca99463f8c8d34a5d4/508333299_10022548407862159_9038096031392192363_n.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1367" width_o="2048" height_o="1367" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0be34d4157d7e498415891bef25dff85f47a822236fbc4f0d261dee6a4f0cca4/508329909_10022548544528812_4858325142165623226_n.jpg" data-mid="239465173" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0be34d4157d7e498415891bef25dff85f47a822236fbc4f0d261dee6a4f0cca4/508329909_10022548544528812_4858325142165623226_n.jpg" /> Individual – The Acceptance and Share This project grew slowly, over two years, shaped by many hands and moments. It began during Serralves em Festa 2014 and continued to evolve inside the exhibition Fora e Dentro do GNRATION. What started as a small gesture became something larger, something shared. Each person who joined the process added their touch by sewing, connecting, and shaping what was already there. Their participation wasn’t about giving an object, but about offering presence, rhythm, and care. The work became a meeting place. Every stitch marked a moment of attention, an acceptance of difference, a quiet act of belonging. The growing textile transformed with each encounter, becoming a living surface of shared gestures and silent conversations. 2014 /15&nbsp; Participatory installation Colaboration with Angelina Nogueira&nbsp; <img width="1280" height="1760" width_o="1280" height_o="1760" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/12bc0c5d25d37b1e23d5df006b3125c644423489323c49f77103ad70497d3d5b/tumblr_n4pou2VAH31silinto1_1280.jpg" data-mid="166306651" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/12bc0c5d25d37b1e23d5df006b3125c644423489323c49f77103ad70497d3d5b/tumblr_n4pou2VAH31silinto1_1280.jpg" /> <img width="1280" height="1760" width_o="1280" height_o="1760" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b15c2868ed95e5270d9a659379240e065711c2a0a22da8f6e1e5ffb88fa2e40/tumblr_n4poez9IG41silinto1_r1_1280.jpg" data-mid="166306661" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0b15c2868ed95e5270d9a659379240e065711c2a0a22da8f6e1e5ffb88fa2e40/tumblr_n4poez9IG41silinto1_r1_1280.jpg" /> <img width="1697" height="2335" width_o="1697" height_o="2335" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/880aa16f96f869814102a6ece860dfa9b1da995e13eb123f0a24fa8f3ebb5b73/ki.jpg" data-mid="205838716" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/880aa16f96f869814102a6ece860dfa9b1da995e13eb123f0a24fa8f3ebb5b73/ki.jpg" /> <img width="2736" height="3648" width_o="2736" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2894cb810318f15677b8402950109db49a8ab226751af9b8c6bdbc2b1b1d351f/34.png" data-mid="205838759" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2894cb810318f15677b8402950109db49a8ab226751af9b8c6bdbc2b1b1d351f/34.png" /> <img width="364" height="342" width_o="364" height_o="342" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/218eae3b68ad536dcb3f1022ccbf19c17226d6a1eb8d71c9d7dc360279dd9d2e/tumblr_n6vgzeCdA51silinto1_400.png" data-mid="166306663" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/364/i/218eae3b68ad536dcb3f1022ccbf19c17226d6a1eb8d71c9d7dc360279dd9d2e/tumblr_n6vgzeCdA51silinto1_400.png" /> <img width="3648" height="2736" width_o="3648" height_o="2736" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/64a403a632ea9ad0eac6fbbebd8b9d76145b16c7a98a1ca89733f20bd8ffb5ec/12.png" data-mid="205838954" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/64a403a632ea9ad0eac6fbbebd8b9d76145b16c7a98a1ca89733f20bd8ffb5ec/12.png" /> Pose e Devoção This publication of graphic combinations between texts taken from the book "As novas cartas Portuguesas" by Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta, and Maria Velho da Costa. Also, known as the three Maria`s, the collages and experiments sometimes from women`s magazines of the occasion and materials gave origin to graphic composition explorations of the book. The book written by these 3 women,&nbsp; censored by the Portuguese dictatorship explores the role of women in Portuguese society, also touching on various intersecting aspects such as poverty, violence, gender equality, and sexual freedom. wax, paper, photography, digitalization, hair, collage 2014 Publication Artist book award with Posse &amp; Devoção in 3rd Fall Salon of Latin America, Marta Traba Gallery.&nbsp; São Paulo, Brazil https://anasantos.eu/Footer Wed, 25 Jan 2023 17:37:41 +0000 Ana Santos https://anasantos.eu/Footer INDEX &nbsp;NEXT︎︎︎ https://anasantos.eu/Residencia-Cultivamos Fri, 17 Jun 2022 13:20:05 +0000 Ana Santos https://anasantos.eu/Residencia-Cultivamos <img width="720" height="960" width_o="720" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7430efa50695200bc653975552bd912483792b082b6711fb299b1cff96cccace/74272610_433199000926438_5915840820539293696_n.jpg" data-mid="166001070" border="0" data-scale="83" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/720/i/7430efa50695200bc653975552bd912483792b082b6711fb299b1cff96cccace/74272610_433199000926438_5915840820539293696_n.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a304bd8e5b9ab2366b8bee2c8fba290a97128cc88030213077c56bd17f61dbb3/76722814_562076121018748_1926856516648828928_n.jpg" data-mid="166001073" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a304bd8e5b9ab2366b8bee2c8fba290a97128cc88030213077c56bd17f61dbb3/76722814_562076121018748_1926856516648828928_n.jpg" /> https://anasantos.eu/bio Tue, 12 Apr 2016 00:03:54 +0000 Ana Santos https://anasantos.eu/bio Exhibitions and Projects 2026 Metabolic Drift at Insola Berlin, project developed in partnership between Ana Santos and William Winter, Berlin.&nbsp; Küchen Kabine was hosted by ZuHause e.V. as part of 48 Stunden Neukölln. It was curated by Ana Santos and developed by William Winter, Berlin. Art and Research encounter (17.04.2026)&nbsp;“Modos de estar no mundo. Gestos, sombras e técnicas para pisar a terra. “Biblioteca de Alcântara - José Dias Coelho, Lisbon. 2024 Nexus Online Residence: Reimagining Electronic Opera - Art and Technology in the Post-Digital Age (AbsonusLab, Portugal) Installation “Ein Stück Land” &nbsp;in the context of 200 years of German immigration to Brazil organized by ForumBrasil Berlin. 2022 Copraxis collective exhibit | Founded by Ectopia and i3s, PortoSolo Exhibition Bodies of Experience | Espaço AL859, Porto 2019 Corpos Dissidentes | Cidades Rebeldes 2019, Lisbon 2017 XIX Cerveira International Art Biennial, Vila Nova de Cerveira Encontros da Imagem 2017 _ "estou-me a lixar" on "Projecção 30 anos Encontros da Imagem", Braga Fuse Stockholm 2017 Ättiksfabriken Art Space in collaboration with Royal College of Music in Stockholm Unframed Festival 2017, Berlin Solo Exhibition OpenStudio | Porto 2016 Perfor6(quem?), São Paulo, Brasil : Performance festival CICA Museum, Artist and Location, South Korea The Yard Theatre, AV Collective showcase, London (estou-me) a lixar at "Casa-animal" project developed by Musa Paradisiaca for BoCA - Biennial of Contemporary Arts. 2015 3° Salão de Outono da América Latina , Galeria Marta Traba São Paulo, Brasil Centro de Assuntos da Arte e Arquitectura, Guimarães , Exhibition: Amor Marginal with Paulo Aureliano da Mata GNRation, Braga, Portugal: Collective exhibition: fora e dentro Maus Hábitos, Porto, Portugal: Collective exhibition Trabalha(dores) do cu 2014 Fundação Serralves (Serralves em Festa) ,Porto, Portugal: Individual – The Acceptance and Share, with Angelina Nogueira 1ºAvenida, Multiplicidades V , Porto, Portugal Exhibition dedicated to graphic work, presents a selection of works done by students of the course of a stencil, linocut, engraving, serigraphy, digital printing, and artist books. Live Performances and Collaborations Participation in “Mistura”, a work of&nbsp; Marina Guzzo at the Vegetable Parliament, SilentGreen, Berlin. Participation in "Reciprocidade Desalmada", a work of Tales Frey introduced in Espaço Mira, Porto. Prótese,mon amour grau 1 in Porto. Participation in “F2M2M2F x 6” work of Tales Frey introduced in Rivoli, Porto. Residencies Nexus Online Residence: Reimagining Electronic Opera - Art and Technology in the Post-Digital Age (AbsonusLab, Portugal) Copraxis Residency in I3s, 2022 Cultivamos Cultura, 2019 [with Cláudio Oliveira] Awards Artist book award with Posse &amp; Devoção artwork in 3º Salão de Outono da América Latina, Galeria Marta Traba São Paulo, Brasil Academic Education 2014- 2016_ Master's Degree in Contemporary Artistic Practices Faculty of Fine Arts – FBAUP, Porto (Portugal) 2011–2014_ BA in Design and Multimedia Communication Art School of Porto - ESAP, Porto (Portugal) Grants 2020/07/01-10/30 - Scientific Research Initiation Fellow Audiovisual Laboratory Summer School ISCTE-IUL with CRIA Funders FCT Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia 2021- Artistic Support for Visual Arts Creation Funders Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian 2021 - Co-Praxis Artistic Residency Funders i3s Porto and Cultivamos Cultura Publications 2022 - Drug Design and Aesthetic Obsolescence Pharmacologies for a Reformulated Concept of Virtual Reality, Hugo Paquete and Ana Santos.Published in the peer-review journal Technoculture: an online journal of technology and society. 2017 - Hey Child, stay wild, Ana Santos. Published in the Zine Inner-City Prophet. Independent Journal Workshops and Seminars Speaker at conference FEMeeting - Women in Art, Science, and Technology, Lisbon [Narrative Taxidermy] Speaker at conference #18ART art, emotion, and technology, Lisbon [with Hugo Paquete] Interviews COMO DIZER O QUE PENSO E PRODUZO EM ATÉ MIL CARACTERES? ENTREVISTA COM TRINTA E CINCO ARTISTAS DAS ARTES DO CORPO at Performatus&nbsp; ARTiculAction Special Edition 2016 at Art Review &nbsp; https://anasantos.eu/copraxis Sun, 19 Jun 2022 09:36:38 +0000 Ana Santos https://anasantos.eu/copraxis "Moscópolis: ensaio de orientação civilizacional" How to think about civilizational reorientation? The pertinence of this question, so inherent to the present day, alerted the intervening artists, Paulo Bernardino Bastos and Ana Santos, involved in this exchange of practices. In parallel and through drosophila flies, the scientific body of this project follows the development of their mitosis, revealing the general question of the investigative apparatus: why does this happen? In agreement with the very structure found within the laboratory, the artists noticed a whole architecture of spatial organization surrounding the fly colonies themselves - comparative to a production factory. They then realized that there were certain parallels to what we, as a society, generally recognized as aspects of civilization's organization [small spaces, in the form of pipettes, in which small "families" live, having as their primary condition reproduction instigated with the excess of resources through food, which, in its absence, turns into death. What interested us the most were the small gestures inherent in decision-making to culminate in the common purpose, survival. Even if it is suicidal, the decision-making for survival by these beings goes beyond their individuality and in fact, becomes a generational need - the mistake that leads to repetition and reproduction of the same gesture. Moscópolis became an essay on the choice and reorientation of these flies. We were interested in understanding what decisions they would make when faced with new environments, different partners, different foods, and the option to be alone or accompanied. From the local to the global, this project instigates us to think about the architectural orderings themselves, the geopolitical strategic reorientations, which are also thoughts of simulation to domestication, as a rationalization of food, in the right to territory or in the management of the ecology of space. The use of everyday materials proposes to think its own excess, as well as and, in counterpoint, alters the logic of sophistication and scientific apparatus found in laboratories. <img width="3120" height="4160" width_o="3120" height_o="4160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bcaf138ef991835d51f42c1a4fcf34a6f6ca285bdaaf2e475f1cb0950fe59715/IMG_20220401_163501.jpg" data-mid="166001053" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bcaf138ef991835d51f42c1a4fcf34a6f6ca285bdaaf2e475f1cb0950fe59715/IMG_20220401_163501.jpg" /><img width="3120" height="4160" width_o="3120" height_o="4160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ee9d4a5fe50fba549804d8eb385431fb56980e553bfa84d70e444c82a1d14177/IMG_20220401_155704.jpg" data-mid="166001056" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ee9d4a5fe50fba549804d8eb385431fb56980e553bfa84d70e444c82a1d14177/IMG_20220401_155704.jpg" /><img width="3120" height="4160" width_o="3120" height_o="4160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a7b92d21d8f32f135b870f0012b307cb19a97f0c337add0f71408840ff21ff1c/IMG_20220401_163742.jpg" data-mid="166001059" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a7b92d21d8f32f135b870f0012b307cb19a97f0c337add0f71408840ff21ff1c/IMG_20220401_163742.jpg" /><img width="3120" height="4160" width_o="3120" height_o="4160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/00574f14c9a5e4ded85bcddcfb8a363f5aeee0b6586a9f466c8b7e8ec3ff1a3d/IMG_20220401_163440.jpg" data-mid="166001061" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/00574f14c9a5e4ded85bcddcfb8a363f5aeee0b6586a9f466c8b7e8ec3ff1a3d/IMG_20220401_163440.jpg" /> Date 2022 Authors Paulo Bernardino Bastos and Ana Santos Various plastics and Variable dimensions Acknowledgments Carlos Conde, Nelson Leça, Mariana Gonçalves, Sofia Silva, Augusta Monteiro, Margarida Gonçalves, Mariana Osswald Hosted on i3s Porto and Ectopia Lisbon Founded by Garantir Cultura Programme 2021/22