Carla Filipe
Carla Filipe | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1973 (age 51–52) |
| Occupation | Artist |
| Known for | Sculpture, drawing, photography, collage |
| Awards | 2023 FLAD drawing prize |
Carla Filipe (born 1973) is a Portuguese multidisciplinary artist and photographer, whose work explores the relationship between art objects, popular culture, and activism. She was the winner of the 2023 FLAD (Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento) drawing prize.[1][2]
Early life and education
[edit]Filipe was born in Aveiro in 1973 and brought up in Vila Nova da Barquinha, a small town in the centre of Portugal, which is close to the town of Entroncamento, a major railway centre. She lived in a house built by the state railway company for its staff and was to develop a strong interest in railways. She studied sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto and then obtained a master's degree in contemporary artistic practices from the same university. In 2009 she received a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to work at the Acme Studios artistic residency in London, UK.[3][4]
Career
[edit]Filipe's work often merges words and drawings. She also uses artefacts such as silkscreen prints, printed and sewn cloth, banners and flags, posters and leaflets, collages, written notebooks, and railway artifacts. She has said that she was influenced by the political propaganda in Portugal that she witnessed in her early years, most notably the image of Maria de Lourdes Pintassilgo, Portugal'’s only female prime minister.[5]
Settling in Porto, she began her career by participating in independent artist-run exhibitions. Subsequently, she exhibited in Jafre, Spain (2011); Prague, Czech Republic (2011); Istanbul, Turkey (2013); Berlin, Germany (2015); Lausanne, Switzerland (2015); Paris, France (2015); Captiva, Florida, US (2016); and São Paulo, Brazil (2016), as well as in Lisbon and Porto in Portugal.[6][7]
In 2014 Filipe had an artistic residency in Antwerp, Belgium. This resulted in an exhibition of collages, titled Harbour of Antwerp: historical crossovers, which examine the ties between Portugal and the Flanders region over the last five centuries, following the lives of Sephardic Jews who were expelled from Portugal in the late fifteenth century. Many settled in Antwerp and made a significant contribution to the city's cultural and economic development.[8]
In 2023 the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves in Porto organized a retrospective exhibition of her work, called In my own language I am Independente.[5] Also in 2023 she won the €20,000 FLAD drawing prize, for what the jury considered to be her "truly expansive practice that can be considered a landmark in contemporary drawing in Portugal".[2] From September 2024 to the end of that year her work was exhibited at a new cultural space at the railway station in Mirandela, Portugal, as part of the Serralves Collection Touring Exhibitions Programme. Designed specifically for display at that location, the exhibition combined both her works of art and her interest in the subject of railways, also exhibiting historical artifacts from the station's collection. The exhibition was closely related to travel and her own itinerant nature, as reflected in the title, Com a casa às costas (With the house on your back).[4][8]
Publication
[edit]In 2022, Filipe published Há Gente Na Via (There are people on the track), the first volume of her photographs of Portuguese railways, shot between 2005 and 2022.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "Carla Filipe: In my own language I am Independente". Serralves. Retrieved 27 December 2024.
- ^ a b "Carla Filipe vence Prémio FLAD de Desenho 2023". Público. 28 October 2023. Retrieved 27 December 2024.
- ^ "Carla Filipe". EDP Foundation. Retrieved 27 December 2024.
- ^ a b "Carla Filipe. Com a Casa às Costas — Obras da Coleção de Serralves e do Fundo Documental da Estação Ferroviária de Mirandela". Serralves. Retrieved 27 December 2024.
- ^ a b "Carla Filipe: In my own language I am independente". Contemporânea. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
- ^ "Carla Filipe". Colecção António Cachola. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
- ^ "Carla Filipe". Encontrarte. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
- ^ a b "Carla Filipe: Com a casa ás costas" (PDF). cdn.bndlyr.com/. Serralves. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
- ^ "Há Gente Na Via (Vol. I) Carla Filipe". Pierre von Kleist. Pierre von Kleist/ MAAT. Retrieved 29 December 2024.