Carla Rebelo (1994, Sao Tome and Principe) is an interdisciplinary artist working between Lisbon and Barcelona.
She works across photography, writing, video and installation, often engaging with themes of language, memory, desire and space. Through collection and manipulation of text, digital archive, objects and sounds, Carla resists universal narratives in favor of multiplicity and opacity. Her artistic practice explores instability, ambiguity and contradiction in the articulation of personal and collective identity.
Studio artist at Tangent Projects, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat
Solo Exhibitions
2022 | Hardboiled Wonderland, Festival du Livre Jeunesse, Saint Esprit (Martinique)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 | Change of Season, Mostra de Fotografia e Autores, Faro (Portugal)
2025 | Hyperlocality, CasCadas Art Space, Barcelona (Spain)
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, Photobooks and Exhibitions - El Observatorio, Barcelona (Spain)
2018-2019 | Photographic Language - El Observatorio, Barcelona (Spain)
2012-2016 | B. Eng. Aerospace Engineering, Tamkang University, Tamsui (Taiwan)
Projects and Awards
2025 | FLI: FUTURE LANGUAGE INNOVATION
2017 | Water for Islands Photography Competition, United Nations - Winner
2016 | Today for the Future Photography Competition, United Nations São Tomé and Principe - Winner