Between writing, cinema and artistic practice, Isadora Neves Marques critically reflects on pressing subjects in contemporary thought through her own language of (auto)fiction. The artist traces the fabric of her work by articulating issues of gender identity, sexuality and reproduction, with reflections on the fluidity and malleability of the body, both human and non-human, while exploring the potential and disquiet of biotechnology and sharing concerns rooted in the increasingly accentuated ecological crisis.
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The exhibition Do we ever truly arrive?, by Isadora Neves Marques, a speculative science fiction framework whose verisimilitude of the hypotheses and realisation of the urgent scenarios it deals with pushes us towards the real. Underlined by political overtones and sociological exercises, her works sheds lights on blind spots that reality fails to illuminate.
The exhibition is organized by Curtas Metragens CRL, as part of the programming of Solar – Cinematic Art Galley, with the support of Vila do Conde Municipality and the Direção-Geral das Artes.

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Do we ever truly arrive?, Isadora Neves Marques
Solar, Galeria de Arte Cinemática 
02.12.2023 — 03.02.2024
monday to saturday, 14:00–18:00
Vila do Conde

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Isadora Neves Marques (Lisbon, 1984) is a director, visual artist, and writer. Her cinema releases include the short fiction films “Becoming Male in the Middle Ages”, which was awarded the Ammodo Tiger Short Award at its premiere in the IFFR - International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2022; “The Bite,” which premiered at TIFF – Wavelengths and NYFF – Projections in 2019 and was awarded at Go Short Nijmegen, Short Waves, Sicilia Queer Film Festival, MixBrasil, and MIEFF; and “Exterminator Seed” which premiered at IndieLisboa in 2017. She also directed the short political documentary “Art and Hurt” (2018). She was the Portuguese Official Representation – Portugal Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia in 2022 with the exhibition “Vampires in Space”, and was awarded a Pinchuk Future Generation Art Special Prize and the Present Future Art Prize for her art career. Her films and artworks have be exhibited or screened at art institutions globally, such as Castello di Rivoli (Turin), High Line (New York), Pérez Art Museum of Miami (Miami), CA2M and Museum Reina Sofia (Madrid), CaixaForum (Barcelona), Tate Modern, Serpentine Galleries and Gasworks (London), HOME (Manchester), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Times Museum (Guangzhou), Inside Out Art Museum (Beijing), and Berardo Museum Collection (Lisbon), as well as in biennials like Liverpool Biennial and Gwangju Biennial, among many others. Together with Catarina de Sousa, she founded the film producer Foi Bonita a Festa in 2021. She is the editor of “YWY, Searching for a Character Between Future Worlds: Gender, Ecology, Science Fiction” (Sternberg Press; 2022) and “The Forest and The School” (Archive Books), and her critical writings are published regularly in e-flux journal and have been included in publications by museums and publishers such as MIT Press, Sternberg Press, and Verso. In 2020 she co-founded the poetry press Pântano Books, publishing her own poetry and that of other poets. Until 2022 she worked under the name Pedro Neves Marques.