Ana Catarina Pinho

Universidade NOVA de Lisboa | NOVA · Institute of Art History (IHA)

This paper presents ongoing research centred on archival imagery from the colonial war, exploring the complex politics of visuality surrounding the conflict. By delving into the regime’s manipulation of visual narratives, it scrutinizes strategies employed to depict and conceal images of death and violence, while analysing the mechanisms through wh...

This paper delves into how the FSA's representational practices were politically regulated to perpetuate a specific narrative and notion of 'truth' throughout history, examining how artistic and photographic practices were appropriated to serve such purpose.

When most European countries began a process of decolonization in the 20th century, Portugal started a war against the liberation movements in the African colonies. In an anachronistic movement regarding other colonial powers, Portugal extended a violent conflict affecting those who experienced it and following generations. The war led to the fall...

Focusing on two films that filmmakers Susana de Sousa Dias and Filipa César developed through the appropriation of archival images from the period of the Portuguese dictatorship, this paper examines the violence perpetrated by the regime through a poetic work over the invisible traces left on both institutional and vernacular archives. Exploring ar...

Catalogue of the exhibition "El Imperio de la Ficción" [The Empire of Fiction], curated by Ana Catarina Pinho and presented at the Extremaduran and Latin American Museum of Contemporary Art, in Badajoz, Spain, from Sept 10, 2021 to Jan 24, 2022. The exhibition included the work of artists Manuel Botelho, Daniel Barroca, Paulo Mendes, Susana de Sous...

The book “Reframing the Archive” emerges from a cycle of research seminars presented at the Portuguese Center of Photography (CPF), Portugal, between 2018 and 2019, attended by experts on photography, art history, philosophy and visual arts, including artists whose work explores the appropriation of archival images, approached as critical devices f...

Traumatic events in the national memory, both individual and collective, are explored through the appropriation of archival material, via dialectical forms of montage, intersecting heterogeneous times and reconfiguring the perception of past events. Approaching the concept of spectrality as a form of responsibility and justice (Derrida), this paper...

The relationship with the past is complex and almost always conflictive. Events obtain their meaning only a posteriori, relying on a process of signification in which gaps are opened and silences are installed, all at the same time. It is through the archive, a repository of traces and fragments, that the contours and scope of the understanding of...

En esta conferencia relacionaremos los conceptos de memoria e historia dentro de uma perspectiva benjaminiana, para pensar las implicaciones del medio fotográfico en la percepción que tenemos del pasado, así como en la construcción de lo real. En este contexto partiremos de álbumes fotográficos provenientes del período imperial Portugués, tanto pe...

This paper examines visual works that explore and contest the propaganda strategies developed by Estado Novo (1926-1974) in Portugal, thus creating counter narratives that unveil the flaws and imperfections of the fictions instigated by the regime.

This article aims to articulate Benjamin’s concepts of now-time and play-space, in order to examine contemporary artistic practices in relation to the historical and collective memories inherited from the Portuguese empire, and the traces of the past which keeps emerging in the national reality as inconclusive histories.

ARCHIVO DOCUMENTARY II YEARBOOK 2013

ARCHIVO DOCUMENTARY I YEARBOOK 2012