Artist Statement
Sandra’s work focuses on landscape, natural or constructed, and its relations with social practices. Her research-based practice is currently invested in creating through expired materials, take advantage of discarded or unused materials, and experimenting with some more sustainable methods. Her work appear weaved across the manifold material manifestations like drawings, frotages, video, text, chemigrams or anthotypes.
Bio
Sandra Teixeira (1993), photographer and author in the audiovisual field, lives and works in Porto. In 2018, she completed the Master in Audiovisual Communication – Documentary Photography at School of Media Arts and Design (ESMAD), with the final project entitled Visual Spaces of Change: from image and space to its limits. She collaborated with the research group CCRE - Center for Communication and Spatial Representation at The Faculty of Architecture - University of Porto, where she worked with Scopio Editions in the field of Architecture, Landscape and Territory Photography. She was selected as Finalist of the IPCI Documentary Photography Scholarship. In 2021 she completed the Master in Artistic Photography at IPCI and was selected as an Emergent Artist by Scopio Magazine. She does photography and video commissions for various agencies. Participates in artistic residences and in individual and collective exhibitions.
Exhibitions:
· SOON · MDOC - Melgaço International Documentary Festival, Collective Exhibition, Viana do Castelo (august, 2023)
· Cata-tempo at Lisbon's Photobook Fair, Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa, Lisbon (november, 2022)
· Cata-vento at Analógica - Festival de Fotografia, Santarém (september, 2022)
· Selected Artist for Issue 7 of Aeonian Magazine (july, 2022)
· Remapear as margens: hipsografia do centro, FEST- Festival Internacional de Fotografia, Collective Exhibition, Amarante (may-july, 2022)
· Cata-tempo at Lisbon's Photobook Fair, Lisbon (november, 2021)
· Exploring the Unseen, Centro de Memória de Vila do Conde, Collective Exhibition, Vila do Conde (august, 2018)
· Emergent Artist at Scopio Magazine Issue 5 - Crossing Borders Shifting Boundaries: City II - (june, 2018)
· Cá e lá, nosotros, MDOC - Melgaço International Documentary Festival, Collective Exhibition, Viana do Castelo (july, 2018)
· No title, Guimarães Noc Noc Festival, Collective exhibition, Guimarães (october, 2017)
· Frames da Cidade e Outras Estórias Invisíveis, Filantrópica, Collective Exhibition, Póvoa de Varzim (july, 2017)
· Nos Socalcos do Douro - Quinta do Ervedal, Collective exhibition, Baião, (july, 2017)
Artist Residency:
· Celeuma II at Tira-Olhos - Experimental Photography Association, Lisbon (2022)
· Artistic Residency at MDOC - Melgaço International Documentary Festival, Viana do Castelo (2022)
· Celeuma at Tira-Olhos - Experimental Photography Association, Lisbon (2022)
· Plano Frontal, Melgaço (2018)
· ESMAD and Town Hall of Póvoa de Varzim, Póvoa de Varzim (2017)
Training:
· BookBinding. From Theory to Practice. Applied Forms and Techniques - Conservation and Restoration for Graphic Documents Atelier (2022) · Marbled Paper Workshop - Conservation and Restoration for Graphic Documents Atelier (2021) · Photography Summer School - ESMAD (2018) · Training in Illustration, Printing, Publishing – Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto (2018) · Manual BookBinding Workshop (2017) · Cyanotype Workshop (2016) · Theater Training - School of Music and Performing Arts P.PORTO (2016) Training in Black and White Photography Development · (2015)