As part of the Encontros PERPHOTO 2020/21, on 4th December, Tânia Dinis presented, in a live stream, Imaginário familiar – linha de tempo [Family Images – Timeline], part of the series Arquivo de Família [Family Archive]. This was followed by a debate on the problematics of the performative potential of the archive and the pertinence of images as an object and matter of discourse.
Imaginário familiar – linha de tempo was part of research and creation work, on intimacy, family archive, document, time-image-memory-dream relationship; and these works in particular, were inserted in the series, Arquivo de Família, which is in constant development and crosses different perspectives and artistic fields, such as photography, performance and cinema. This project began by researching and collecting images, personal or not, as well as other devices: films, letters, slides, photographs, objects. These would be brought together later in artistic experiments, reorganized, revisited and manipulated by montage, implementing collages and sound fragments, building small narratives. Image and sound would thus be confronted, exploring the idea of image as an experience of the ephemeral nature of time and memory.
Tânia Dinis (1983) has a Master’s in Contemporary Artistic Practices from FBAUP (2015). Her work has different perspectives and crosses various artistic fields – photography, performance and cinema – in a relational aesthetic, starting with personal or anonymous family archive images, from their appropriation, or other real image records, in a time-image-memory relationship. In 2013, she made her first short film, Não são favas, são feijocas, awarded at various film festivals, followed by other works: Arco da Velha (2015), Laura (2017) – award for best short-film at the Arquivo em Cartaz-Festival Internacional de Cinema de Arquivo – and Armindo e a Câmara Escura. She was the director of the programme, SANGUE NOVO 22º Festival de cinema Luso Brazileiro in Santa Maria da Feira, 2019; the year she co-created Linha de Montagem with Pedro Bastos and Sara Costa, part of the Arquivo do Teatro Oficina-CIAJG–Guimarães. Selected for ARTISTA NO CENTRO 2019/2021, by Oficina – Guimarães, she was one of the winners of the Summer Laboratories Open Call at gnration Braga with the audiovisual installation – sobrepostos. She also created, among others, the performance BASTIDORES (2019), which was based on the Teatro Rivoli photographic archive and those of former employees between the 40s and 80s, for the Rivoli’s 87th Anniversary. Temporárias in co-creation with Maria Antónia Mion (BR) and Ana Villanueva (ARG), at CAAA – Centro para os Assuntos da Arte e Arquitetura, Buenos Aires e Curitiba, produced by Teatro Oficina (2017), Curva Ascendente (2014), ROTA (pequena história de uma família) (2015), FEMALE (2012). In addition, she has collaborated on projects curated by Eduarda Neves, with the Producer Bando à Parte, with the CAAA and the Oficina. She has done solo and been part of group exhibitions in spaces such as: Sputnik the Window (Porto), A Gentil Carioca-Abre Alas (Brazil), Maus Hábitos (Porto), Solar – Cinematic Art Gallery, Museu Júlio Dinis (Ovar), Bienal de Cerveira, Encontros da Imagem Braga, Cinémathèque Québécoise.
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