Carla Filipe
História Do saneamento das águas Políticas Públicas
Dimension: 92 x 120 cm
Medium: Screen printing, “Boletim da Ordem dos Engenheiros” clippings (Year IV, December 1940, nº 48), Indian ink on paper
Nominated by: Rute Ventura and Pedro Gadanho
Carla Filipe is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice questions the permeable relationship between art objects, culture, and activism. Anchored in drawing, personal experiences and autobiography as an experimental archive of contemporaneity, Filipe builds a form of social portrait and, simultaneously, self-portraiture. By applying anthropological methodologies, she collects, interviews, and documents the traces of individual and collective narratives, critically questioning conventional discursivity on the recent past and present. Essentially, she explores transversal concepts such as territory, property, memory, identity, and representation.
Notable exhibitions include In my own language i am independente, Serralves Museum, Porto (2023); Confissões de uma baptizada, Centro de Artes do Arquipelago, Azores (2022); da cauda à cabeça, Berardo Museum, Lisbon (2014); Incerteza Viva, 32nd Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo (2016); and Manifesta 8, European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Murcia (2011).