An Archive of daily life #8 - The accumulative schemes of objects and their determinants

ANA PÉREZ QUIROGA


Coimbra, Portugal (1960)

Lives and works between Lisbon and Xhangai. Graduated in Sculpture by FBAUL, she also made other courses: Advanced Visual Arts Course at Ar.Co and a Master in Visual Arts and Inter-media at the Universidade de Évora.

She works mainly with installation and photography and her themes go from the institutional critic to a more personal universe of references. She has been presenting her artistic work on a regular basis since 1999, in significant institutional group shows such as Disseminações, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal (2001), Comer o no Comer, Salamanca Art Centre, Spain (2002), Where Are You From? Contemporary Art from Portugal, Grinnell, Iowa, USA (2008). She had also solo shows in Lisbon, at the Museu do Chiado /MNAC (1999) and Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga (2004). Her work is represented in important collections: Isabel Vaz Lopes (in deposit at the Museu do Chiado /MNAC), Caixa Geral de Depósitos and Câmara Municipal de Lisboa.