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Isadora Neves Marques (she/her) is a filmmaker, visual artist, and writer. Until 2023 she worked under the name Pedro Neves Marques.
Contacts:
isadoranevesmarques@gmail.com
art: info@galleriaumbertodimarino.com
cinema: dir@portugalfilm.org
ART & CINEMA
She was the Portuguese Official Representation - Portugal Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022), with her project Vampires in Space. She was awarded a Special Prize by the prestigious Pinchuk Future Generation Art Prize in 2021 and the Present Future Generation Art Prize at Artissima in 2018 for her art career. Her film Becoming Male in the Middle Ages was awarded the the distinguished Ammodo Tiger Short Award at IFFR - International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2022 as well as at Xposed Queer Film Festival Berlin, and her film The Bite won best short film awards at Go Short - Nijmegen, Mix Brasil - Festival Cultura e Diversidade, Sicilia Queer Film Festival, and Short Waves, as well as the Kodak Prize at MIEFF in 2020.
Her films premiered at film festivals such as Critic's Week - Cannes Festival, IFFR - International Film Festival Rotterdam and TIFF - Toronto International Film Festivals, and have screened at New York Film Festival, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Vienna Shorts, London Short Film Festival, Indie Lisboa, Melbourne International Film Festival, Vila do Conde Short Film Festival, Cris du Court, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, and Thessaloniki International Film Festival, among many others. They have also been screened at art institutions such as Museo Reina Sofia (Madrid), HOME (Manchester), Tate Modern Film (London), Serpetine Galleries at Peckhamplex Cinemas (London), Anthology Film Archives (New York), and Batalha Centro de Cinema (Porto), among others.
Together with film producer Catarina de Sousa, in 2021 she founded the cinema production company Foi Bonita a Festa.
Her films and artworks have been show in major art institutions globally, including solo shows at High Line (New York) and e-flux (New York), Pérez Art Museum of Miami (Miami), Castello di Rivoli (Turin), Gasworks (London), CA2M (Madrid, with Zahy Tentehar), CaixaFórum (Barcelona, with Zahy Tentehar), 1646 (The Hague, with Zahy Tentehar), Torreão Nascente - Lisbon Municipal Galleries and Berardo Museum Collection (Lisbon), EDP Foundation (Lisbon, with André Romão), Galeria Solar (Vila do Conde), among others. She participated in biennials such as Liverpool Biennial, Gwangju Biennale, Guangzhou Image Triennial, New Museum Triennial, Yinchuan Biennale, and Göteborg Biennial, among others, as well as in group shows at SculptureCenter and Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (New York), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), PAV (Turin), Kadist Art Foundation (Paris), Inside Out Museum (Beijing), Guandong Times Museum (Guangzhou), Matadero (Madrid), MADRE (Naples), MAAT (Lisbon), Sursock Art Museum (Beirut), and Hamburg Kunstverein (Hamburg), among others. Her works are included in art collections such as Castelo di Rivoli, Wellcome Collection, Kadist Foundation, EDP Foundation, and many private collections.
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WRITING
Together with Alice dos Reis, in 2020 she founded the poetry and literary publisher Pântano Books / Livros do Pântano, with whom she published her first poetry collection, Sex as Care and Other Viral Poems (2020). Pântano Books publishes originals and translations, to date by: CAConrad, Odete, and Serubiri Moses.
Her poetry has also been included in magazines and books such as Documents of Contemporary Art: Health (MIT Press and Whitechapel, 2020), Sex Ecologies (MIT Press), and Dolce Criolo.
Her essays and critical writings focus primarily on the intersections of art and cinema with ecology, gender, technology, and science fiction. She is a regular contributor to e-flux journal and Art Criticism, and has published in books by MIT Press, Verso, Sternberg Press, Archive Books, and museums such as Haus der Kulturen der Welt, among others.
She is the editor of the anthologies YWY, Searching for a Character Between Future Worlds (Sternberg Press, 2022) and The Forest and the School/ Where to Sit at the Dinner Table? (Archive Books, 2015). She was guest-editor for e-flux journal #65, the Supercommunity issue, for the 56th Venice Biennalle in 2015, since available by Verso.
She is the author of two books of short stories, Morrer na América (Abysmo Editora and Kunsthalle Lissabon, 2017) and The Integration Process/ O Processo de Integração (bilingual; Atlas Projectos, 2012).
She is happily and steadily writing her first novel and developing her first feature-length film, while busy with short stories and the daily practice of poetry.