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Isadora Neves Marques, Vampires in Space, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Galleria Umberto di Marino.

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Isadora Neves Marques: Vampires in Space and Other Fictions

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Venue
Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery
Dates
2024.11.4 Mon.2024.12.22 Sun.
Organized by
Kyoto City University of Arts
With the cooperation of
Galleria Umberto di Marino
With support from
Embaixada de Portugal no Japão
Instituto Camões
Curated by
Mitsuhiro Kishimoto
Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery
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Artist Profiles

Isadora Neves Marques
Isadora Neves Marques is a film director, visual artist, and writer (b. 1984, Lisbon). She was the Portuguese Official Representation – Portugal Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia in 2022 and was awarded a Pinchuk Future Generation Art Special Prize in 2022 and the Present Future Art Prize in 2018 for her art career. Her recent cinema releases include “My Senses Are All I Have to Offer” (2024; world premiere at La Semaine de la Critique, Cannes Festival), “Becoming Male in the Middle Ages” (2022; Ammodo Tiger Short Award at its world premiere in IFFR - International Film Festival Rotterdam), and “The Bite” (2019; world premiere Toronto International Film Festival – Wavelengths), being awarded in numerous film festivals. Her work has been exhibited or screened in art institutions such as Castello di Rivoli (Turin), High Line (New York), Pérez Art Museum of Miami (Miami), CA2M and Museum Reina Sofia (Madrid), CaixaForum (Barcelona), Tate Modern and Gasworks (London), HOME (Manchester), Palais de Tokyo and Frac île-de-France (Paris), Times Museum (Guangzhou), and Inside Out Art Museum (Beijing), as well as in biennials like Liverpool Biennial and Gwangju Biennial, among others. In 2021 she co-founded the film production company Foi Bonita a Festa. As a writer, in 2020 she also co-founded with fellow artist Alice dos Reis the poetry press Pântano Books. Alongside her poetry, she publishes regularly on art, cinema, and topics from ecology to gender and science fiction, including for e-flux journal and publications by Sternberg Press, MIT Press, and Verso, among others. Until 2022 she worked under the name Pedro Neves Marques.

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