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Inês Brites works with sculpture, installation and media, referring to what is familiar: a conversation across rejection, fragility, recognition and affection. Playing with unorthodox techniques and tactility, she questions the possibilities of representing vulnerability and our relationship to objects, bodies and nature. Her sculptural work results from a network between found and produced objects processed in an exploratory way of analyzing materials and their purpose, which is mutant, contraditory and governed by the impermeable curiosity employed by relating materialities, the past, humour, accidental compositions, stagings, illusions. Her approach questions the meaning of objects, exploring the impact of these bodies on ourselves, in our societies, though the memories that recall our intimacies.
ContactInês Brites
b. 1992, based in lisbon
mibrites@hotmail.com
instagram3+1 Arte Contemporânea
Largo Hintze Ribeiro 2 E-F 1250-122 Lisbon
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T +351 938 725 298

Studies 2014—2015. KASK: Conservatorium & School of Arts Ghent, Belgium
2011—2015. Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Solo exhibitions
2024. estrela-lágrima, 3+1 Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon (PT)
2023. interroguei os espíritos dos corredores, Livraria Zé dos Bois, curated by Joana Leão, Lisbon (PT)
2022. Com Licença, O Armário Móvel, curated by Benedita Pestana, Saco Azul / Maus Hábitos, Porto (PT) 
2021. There’s More Water Entering the Soil, Galeria 3+1 Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon (PT)
2020. Estendal Virtual, Cosmos ac, Lisbon (PT)
Duo exhibitions
2022. Tourist in my heart and in my brain with Rui Castanho, Ciclo de Amizades, Lisbon (PT)
2022. Love make us drunk with Catarina Real and Maura Carneiro, Ciclo de Amizades, Lisbon (PT)
2022. Luxuosamente Soft with Di Lança Branco, Ciclo de Amizades, Lisbon (PT)
2021. Vamos Colorir? with André Costa, Ciclo de Amizades, Lisbon (PT)
2020. Se o Fio Partir Veremos o Corpo Seguir em Linha Recta with Tânia Geiroto Marcelino, Ciclo de Amizades, Lisbon (PT)
2020. White Safari Tent with Aled Simons, G39, Cardiff (UK)
2020. O Stand 1.1 with Sara Mealha, O Stand Project, Lisbon (PT)
2019. Aguadilha with Lea Managil, Ciclo de Amizades, Lisbon (PT)

Collective exhibitions2024. First Step, organized by Pedro Valdez Cardoso, BiggerSplash, Lisbon (PT)
2024. How does it feel on the tongue?, curated by Jesse James and Gonçalo Preto, Fabric Arts Festival, Fall River, MA (USA)
2024. O Futuro Nasce A Cada Amanhecer, curated by Luís Silva and João Mourão, MU.SA, Sintra (PT)
2024. The Center Cannot Hold, curated by Mattia Tosti, Monitor Rome (IT)
2024. Cacto-orquídea, curated by Ana Grebler and Pedro Liñares, Hub Criativo do Beato (PT)
2024. Highly Confusing Times, curated by Francisca Portugal and Whataboutvic, Arbag, Lisboa, (PT)
2024. Amor I Love You, curated by Margarida Brito Alves and Giulia Lamoni, P28, Manicónio (PT) 2024. ARCOMadrid with 3+1 Arte Contemporânea, Madrid (ES)2023. Taking the Light Out of the Prism, curated by Susana Rocha, OGFE, Lisbon (PT)
2023. Só Porque Foi, e Voou, curated by Colégio das Artes UCoimbra, MNAC, Lisbon (PT)
2023. Bandeira Branca, curated by Aos Cuidados / Paula Ferreira, Irmã Feia, Almada (PT)
2023. Porta Entreaberta, organized by Francisca Valador (with Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Grant), Ajuda (PT)
2023. ARCOLisboa 2023 with 3+1 Arte Contemporânea, Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon (PT)
2023. Todo o Corpo é Político, curated by Coletivo de Curadores da NOVA FCSH, SNBA, Lisbon (PT)
2023. Sol sal brilho brilhas collective exhibition curated by Filipa da Rocha Nunes, vaga, Azores (PT)
2022. 15 anos de Mace — Aqui Somos Rede, curated by Ana Cristina Cachola, MACE Elvas (PT)
2022. For the Oceans: Art in Embassies U.S. Department of State, Casa Carlucci, Lisbon (PT)
2022. Depois do banquete, Teatro Thalia, Lisbon (PT)
2021. No Past, No Future: The Present is Looped, curated by Victor Pinto da Fonseca, Plataforma Revólver, Lisbon (PT)
2021. Um Corpo, Um Rio, curated by David Revés, Galeria Liminare, Lisbon (PT)
2021. Lançamento Dose 07, Espaço Projecto Pontes, Fundão (PT)
2021. A Hunted Time, curated by Nicolai Sabib and David Revés, Casa Capitão, Lisbon (PT)
2020. Dear Image - Part II, Galeria 3+1 Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon (PT)
2019. Reality Check, Las Palmas Project, Lisbon, Portugal
2019. Central Asia II: Presença Brilhante, Lisbon (PT)
2019. Feeling Blue, curated by Carolina Quintela, Espaço Real, Lisbon (PT)
2019. Estrela Decadente #49, curated by Ana Cachola and Xavier Almeida, Desterro, Lisbon (PT)
2019. Pausa, curated by Pedro Batista, Esqina Cosmopolitan Lodge, Lisbon (PT)
2019. Tu Não Viste Nada, curated by Tiago Baptista, DuplexAIR, Lisbon (PT)
2019. There’s a Horse In The Backyard, FEA Lisboa, Lisbon (PT)
2019. Mellifluous Elephant, Casa da Dona Laura curated by Francisca Aires Mateus, Lisbon (PT)
2019. I Will Take The Risk, curated by Carolina Trigueiros, Tomaz Hipólito Studio, Lisbon (PT)
2018. Nome do Meio, group curatorship, Moradia, Algés (PT)
2018. The Dog is Very Confused, curated by Kasia Sobczak, FOCO Galeria, Lisbon (PT)
2017. Gran Tempo di Sensualità, Casa Punto Croce, Veneza (IT)
2016. Casa Ocupada, Casa da Dona Laura curated by Francisca Aires Mateus, Lisbon (PT)
2016. Finalistas Pintura Belas-Artes 2014/15, SNBA, Lisbon (PT)
2015. Bienal Jov’arte Loures 2015, Sala Multiusos, Lisbon (PT)
2015. Ohne Titel (Noch), Zwarte Zaal, Ghent (BE)
Nominations / Grants 2024. Prémios Novos Artistas EDP Selection
2022. Direcção Regional da Juventude Governo dos Açores + Programa de Apoio às Actividades Artísticas nos Açores, Walk & Talk
2021. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian: Apoio Criação Artística Artes Visuais (Ciclo de Amizades project)
Art residencies 2024. Alfaia, Loulé (PT)
2024. Artistes en résidence, Clermont-Ferrant (FR)
2023. Fictional Futures, Rua das Gaivotas 6, Lisbon (PT)
2022. 4th Edition PARES, Walk & Talk (with Miguel Miguel), Azores (PT)
2020. RAT TRAP X G39 (with Aled Simons), Cardiff (UK)

Other projects2019—2022. Ciclo de Amizades — exhibition project at her studio, Lisbon (PT)
2022. Vídeo “A Purificação da Chuva” for Médio Porte (web)
2022. Performance from Bioluminescência, Penhasco, Lisbon (PT)
2020. Performance from Bioluminescência, Zé dos Bois Gallery, Lisbon (PT)
2019. Bioluminescência by Filipa Matta - A Peça Que Faltava, RTP2
Bibliography
Review “A teia das coisas” by José Luís Porfírio, Expresso (Abril 2024)
Review “estrela-lágrima” by José Pardal Pina, Umbigo Magazine (March 2024)
Review “Fictional Futures” by Laila Algaves Nuñez, Umbigo Magazine (April 2023)
Bio by Susana Pombra for eumoceano.pt website (June 2022)
Article “Five fragments on the genesis of an affirmative (aesth)ethics in the context of Portuguese art”, by Carolina Machado, Umbigo #80 (March 2022)
Stand 1.0 Catalogue, o stand, text by Maria Miguel Von Hafe (March 2022)
Review about “There’s More Water entering the soil” solo by Maíra Botelho, Umbigo Magazine (May 2021)
Diálogos 11, text by José Pardal Pina, Umbigo Magazine #76 (April 2021)
Inquérito a 263 artistas by Sara e André, Contemporânea (March 2021)
Interview by Catarina Real, ArteCapital (September 2020)
Destroy Youth, “Wanted Love, Connection Failed”, Self-published (April 2020)
Dose Issue 02 (March 2019)
Collections
António Cachola (PT)
Oliva Arauna (ES)
Serralves (PT)
Vasco Collection (PT)
Private Collections in Portugal