The installation we have created for the meeting
activated the entrace hall of the Covilhã’ Wool Museum, with an imaginary object, where the multimedia device was clearly made explicit to the audience.
This publication maps both the exhibition and the experience of the artist residency at Feital that led to the
Inspired by tour meetings with the gardener Mr. Arlindo,
Following the artist residency Inter.Meada in the Alentejo region we have created a site-specific work with multiple elements for the small chapel of Santa Luzia:
Following an invitation by the 1st Porto Bienalle of Photography we produced the site specific piece
In the public space of Café Candelabro
Após os grandes incêndios mortais de 15 de Outubro de 2017, o temperatura do solo nas desativadas Minas do Pejão subiu, e o carvão começou a arder.
At the exhibition
During our one-week residency in the mountains,
The exhibition
At the
Ainda, um lugar (Still, a place) by Daniel Moreira and Rita Castro Neves is a bilingual book developed for the exhibition that took place at Casa-Museu Medeiros e Almeida in Lisbon, in March 2018. In the exhibition, light boxes, projections, printed photos and drawings – some juxtaposed, others not – endeavour in a new path […]
Ainda, um lugar stems from the attempts to fathom a curve from a road in an Alentejo landscape.
More than describing the 47 miles (75km) of the Portuguese Fisherman’s Trail at the Costa Vicentina that they’ve walked in 2017, the exhibition Trilho at the atmospheric Lisbon geological museum, the project aimed at thinking how can we effectively know a place: walking, studying, photographing, drawing.
Two installations Jardins Botânicos, Coimbra e Rio de Janeiro (estudo 01) e (estudo 02) stems from the experience and observation of two botanical gardens, in order to create a discourse on constructed landscape and visual representation.
The unique and very special experience of the Paulo Reis Residency at São Paulo Ateliê Fidalga materialized in the exhibition vidro paisagem.
With um lugar we try to fathom a curve from a road in an Alentejo landscape.
Communication: boats and <em>Communication: shells establish communication, between each other and with the space of a darkened room. Evocative, retro-illuminated and juxtaposed elements of travel, reflect – through drawing and photography – on the possibilities to connect union and evasion.
The subject of collecting images of Portugal made me think of that image as a diversity and as a journey, which includes the rural countryside and the Atlantic coast of the country.
Collaborative project by Daniel Moreira and Rita Castro Neves, Laking plays with the words Lake and Lacking, in a new verb to lake. The idealized idea of a lake where in fusion we become one, always including the understanding of the impossibility of its full realization.
Laking, a verbal form that didn’t exist but now does.
Meeting Point is a project of 14 colour photographs of the University Campus of Asprela in Porto, Portugal
These Duas Casas are two archetypal houses, of different dimensions but close in scale, separated but together in their isolation, and originality, calling upon reflections on isolation and fusion.
The images in the series Broken and Repaired present themselves as a narrative collection of accidental and disruptive happenings of the material and organic daily life.
Contributions to Think Multimédia was a cycle of conferences, on thursday mornings, at Porto Design Factory of the Porto Polytechnic, that joined us for 3 months in 2015, to think together an expanded area of the multimedia, through the practices brought to us by artists, curators and communicators, working individually, in collaboration or artist associations.
The photographs Marat and Zeca reflect a certain death of the revolutionary spirit – from the French Revolution of 1789 to the Portuguese Red Carnation Revolution of 25th April 1974, which ended a fascist dictatorship of more than 40 years.
Lava on Snow is an exploratory video, a walk in progress that brings together two artists moving through places of special resonance in their first collaboration.
This documentary photographic project was developped in the Azores Islands on the theme of Citizenship and Sustainability.
Here is about small personal inscriptions in a longer temporality and in a space rendered more public.
The Collector departs from the split image of a man’s head, activated by the movement between left and right side.
Times of the Medusa articulates itself around one photograph of a medical condition – Alopecia Areata – in which hair is lost.
Video Ergo Non Sum is an installation with two video projections, developed for the Neo Realism Museum of Vila Franca de Xira (Portugal). Drawing from the metaphor of the myth of Narcissus, is anchored in an autobiography of surrealistic contours, to think the relations between mother and daughter, in its double vision.
Blue Pencil responds to the invitation to produce a new piece of 20x20cm in response to the theme Mono, and paying hommage to the art group based in Coimbra, Grupo de Coimbra Cores, CAPC 1976/78.
Quando nos referimos a património referimo-nos a um conjunto de monumentos, documentos, objectos, factos que são aceites por um conjunto de pessoas como fazendo parte da história desse mesmo grupo. E que nesse sentido deve ser preservado.
A arte contemporânea é de uma ordem diferente, é como que um registo da ordem da historiografia.
Inuit is a 2008 photographic series of small daily occurrences where the strangeness is in the minutiae.
Depósito is a sculptural piece that tackles the themes of storing, knowledge and archiving for a group show at the University of Porto.
Girl Meets Boy by Júlio Dolbeth & Rita Castro Neves, 2007, is a site-specific piece for Gira Pratos Restaurant in Porto which is a visual fantasy that addresses protocol, fashion photography and popular culture.
U.R., 2004, is a fictional selling point of the “official” T-shirts of the project Quartel that questions the uses of the historical collective revolutionary memories, too often turned into transitional images.
Relato is a commissioned project for the central pages of the printed magazine Laura on the theme of the Euro 2004 football European contest where written text is made with reference to the soccer audio report, creating a kind of metalanguage in order to speak of the physical relationships in soccer, a universe of seduction, hesitations, desires, expectations and betrayals.
WC is a site-specific oeuvre made in collaboration with Eric Many, for the men’s public toilet of Marquês garden and square in Porto.
Tidying Up uses more than 100 used toothbrushes to disrupt our ordinary daily life with a disturbing vision
A flashing light box buried in the industrial chimney of the Old Factory Moagens Harmonia in Porto, makes us think of the factory workers that inhabited the space.
Stop Putting Words In My Mouth is a complex site-specific piece for my primary school, in Porto, raising questions about dictatorship, catholicism, memory and education.