Ana Pérez-Quiroga
Visual artist, filmmaker, and researcher. She holds a Ph.D. in Contemporary Art from the College of Arts, University of Coimbra; a Master in Visual Arts-Intermedia from the University of Évora; a degree in Sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon; and an Advanced Course and Individual Project in Visual Arts from Ar.Co. She is a post-doctoral researcher at CHAIA – Center for Art History and Artistic Research at the University of Evora, with the support of the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia. Her themes focus on everyday life and its mapping, the importance of ordinary objects in constructing self-representation, identity, gender issues, memory, post-memory, and color. They are materialized in several supports: installation, objects, photography, film, textiles, and performance. She was awarded the following prizes: Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores (SPA) – Best Visual Arts Exhibition of 2014; Fundação Millennium BCP – Artistic Project 2022. She is currently working on a feature film/ documentary supported and financed by ICA.

HElena Valsecchi
Italian and Portuguese artist, born in Novara, Italy, in 1976. She currently lives and works in Lisbon and Peniche, Portugal. She attended the Painting and Drawing course at Ar.Co. in 2018, and the Artistic Residencies program at MArt, in Lisbon, with a scholarship from Carmona e Costa Foundation, MArt, Sá da Costa in 2019–2020. She was a guest resident at RAMA, Residências Artísticas da Maceira e Alfeiria, and integrated the project team. She is currently enrolled in the Master’s course in Visual Arts at ESAD, Caldas da Rainha. Among her most recent exhibitions stand out the solo show Synecdoche, with text by João Silvério, at Galeria Sá da Costa, and the group exhibition Uma Certa Prática da Atenção, at Galeria Municipal de Torres Vedras, curated by Ana Anacleto, in 2022. HElena bases her practice on her reflections about the sacred, its origins and essence, and the human need for it as an answer to the fragility of individual life, a necessity that translates the ever-unfulfilled yearning for a fusion between the singular and the whole, between the human body and the non-human body, individual life and universal life.

João Silvério
Master of Curatorial Studies by the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. He is associate curator of the PLMJ Foundation’s contemporary art collection. He began his activity as an independent curator in 2003. He created the independent project EMPTY CUBE in October 2007, which has presented projects by artists, designers, and architects (www.emptycube.org). He was President of the Portuguese Section of AICA – International Association of Art Critics, from March 2013 to December 2015. In 2021, he participated in the project RAMA Residências para Artistas, Maceira, Portugal. In 2022 he founded the independent publisher co_edition in association with MeelPress. He regularly writes about artistic projects in catalogs, publications, and websites.