Carla Rebelo

Carla Rebelo (1994, Sao Tome and Principe) is an interdisciplinary artist living between Lisbon and Barcelona.

She works between photography, writing, video, sound, archive recollection and installation, using them to explore points of instability, ambiguity and contradiction in the tensional dialogue between body and place.

While her practice has been primarily image-based, she has recently felt drawn to moving beyond the gaze and transforming it into an embodied experience. She is interested in how images can tear themselves away from mere representation to open up and reveal something more, if we allow ourselves to listen to them.

Studio @ Tangent Projects, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat


Contact Details

crebelo27@yahoo.com

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Solo Exhibitions

2022 | Hardboiled Wonderland, Festival du Livre Jeunesse, Saint Esprit (Martinique)


Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 | Change of Season, Procur.arte, leader of Parallel Photo Platform, Lisbon (Portugal)

2021 | Reframing History, PhotoVogue Festival, Milan (Italy)

2020 | Dissident Planets - Online Exhibition – AOJE / Catchupa Factory

2020 | Family Matters, Catchupa Factory, Santo Antão (Cabo Verde)

2020 | Family Matters,  Catchupa Factory, Maputo (Mozambique)


Publications

2024| A Certain Fury Guided Me - Artist book

2020| Family Matters - Catchupa Factory

2019| Zist Magazine  #21 - Le Sentiment

2019| Zist Magazine #10 - Le Futur

2019| Zist Magazine #2 - Dire et Montrer

2018| Perspectives Magazine - CP Travels


Artist Residencies

2024 | Affective Ecologies, Lisbon.  An Artistic Residency about the contemporary relevance of Amílcar Cabral's thought, an initiative by Hangar and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

2017 | Catchupa Factory Residency for New Photographers, Mindelo


Education and Workshops

2024 | Workshop: La Ciutat Com a Laboratori Editorial, with Natasha Christia  and Alejandro Acín - SCAN, Tarragona.

2024 | Masterclass: Archive Fever, with Natasha Christia - El Observatorio, Barcelona.

2023-2024 | Photographic Narrative and Formalisations - El Observatorio, Barcelona (Spain)

2018-2019 | Photographic Language - El Observatorio, Barcelona (Spain)


Awards

2017 |  Water for Islands Photography Competition, United Nations - Winner

2016 |  Today for the Future Photography Competition, United Nations São Tomé and Principe - Winner



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