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Pauliana Valente Pimentel

OPEN CLASS
NOVEMBER 20TH OF 2024, 2.30PM
ROOM 40 OF EP1 – ESAD.CR

Pauliana Valente Pimentel, artist and photographer, will present her work as part of the Self-Portrait and Self-Representation course. The aim is to sketch a self-portrait through detailed documentation of the communities to which one belongs by affinity or for the duration necessary to carry out a project, as in the series “Family Album” or “entre nós”.

Pauliana Valente Pimentel was born in Lisbon in 1975, the city where she still lives but she is working all around the world. As an artist and a freelance photographer she has been producing photo reportages since 1999 for various Portuguese and foreign magazines and newspapers. In 2005 she took part in the photography course of the Gulbenkian Creativity and Artistic Creation Program. She was member of the [Kameraphoto] collective from 2006 until its extinction in 2014, and a founding member of the “N’WE” collective in 2016. Besides her participation in collectively authored books, she produced her own first book ‘VOL I’ in 2009, published by Pierre Von Kleist and ‘ Caucase, Souvenirs de Voyage’ in 2011 by Gulbenkian Foundation. Filmography: “Diz-se que Portugal é um bom país para se viver”, 40 min, Portugal 2011; “Jovens de Atenas / Youth of Athens”, 13 min. Athens, Greece, 2012; “Entre Nous”, 51 min. Portugal, France, 2014. In 2015 she won the prize for the best photographic work of the year by the Portuguese Author Society and in 2016 she was nominee for the Novo Banco prize, the most important prize in Portugal for contemporary photography.
She did already several exhibitions in Europe – Portugal, Spain, Italy, England, Germany, Greece, but also outside such as EUA, Turkey, China and Africa (Morocco, and Cape Vert). She was represented for five years by Galeria 3+1 Arte Contemporanea in Chiado and nowadays she is represented by Galeria das Salgadeiras, in Lisbon. Part of her work belongs to private and institutional collections.