Sofia Borges
Sofia Borges
Sofia Borges was born in Lisbon. She studied Fine Arts, Painting and Curatorial Studies at Faculdade de Belas Artes of Lisbon/ Gulbenkian Foundation. She works in research projects, documentation and artistic creation in collaborations supported by dialogue with local narratives through participatory processes in context of visual arts, public spaces, installation and cinema. At moment she works in Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe.
Her projects were presented in informal locals, academic contexts, public spaces, art biennales and international film festivals. Her films were awarded Portugal, Italy, India and Spain. She has had the support of Gulbenkian Foundation(PT), Duquesne Univesity (USA), Ministry of Culture of Portugal(PT), and Ministry of Culture of São Tomé and Príncipe(STP).
ACADEMIC
2010. M.A. in Curatorial Studies, Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon/ Gulbenkian Foundation. Portugal
2001. Sculpture, AR.CO. Lisbon. Portugal
1998. Graduation in Visual Arts-Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon. Portugal
GRANTS AND SUPPORT (SELECTION)
2021-22 ICA (Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual/ Ministery of Culture) (Portugal)
2021-22 Indie Lisboa - Festival Internacional de Cinema (Portugal)
2021-22 Fomento Fundo / Ministery of Culture (Portugal)
2021-22 Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal)
2020-21 Alliance Française of São Tomé and Príncipe (São Tomé and Príncipe)
2015 Africa Cont./ Municipality of Lisbon (Portugal)
2013-15 Duquesne University (USA)
2012-13 Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal)
FILMOGRAPHY
2023. SÚLU SÁUA; 30´; DCP; 1:1, 33; cor; Portugal.
Production: Oxalá Filmes. Cast: Honório Soares (STP), Inocêncio Costa (STP), Marta Espírito Santo (STP). Directed: Sofia Borges (PT). Image: Afonso Gaudêncio (PT), Sound: Bernardo Theriaga (PT), Rui Viana Pereira. (PT) e Júlio Pereira (PT). Edited
: Sofia Borges (PT) e Diogo Vale (PT).
2022. 53 (video installation) 15´loop; DCP; 1:1, 33; cor; Portugal-São Tomé and Príncipe.
Co-production: Oxalá Filmes. Directed and edited: Sofia Borges (PT). Image: Afonso Gaudêncio(PT), Sound: Bernardo Theriaga (PT). Cast: Honório Soares (STP), Inocêncio Costa(STP), Marta Espírito Santo (STP).
2012. Bardo (video installation) 15´loop; HD; 1:1, 33; cor; Portugal
Directed and image: Sofia Borges and Marta Rema (PT), edited: Sofia Borges (PT) and Sound: Rui Viana (PT).
2015. MAXAMBA; 25´; DCP; 1:1, 33; cor; Portugal-USA.
Co-production and co-directed: Sofia Borges (PT) and Suzanne Barnard (USA). Sound: Don Maue (USA) Editing: António Gadanho (PT). Dialogues: Puspavantibai Valgi (MZ/PT) Amarchande Otomchande (IN/PT) Ila Lalgi (MZ/PT).
2009. EU ERA PRODUTOR DE MIM PRÓPRIO (video installation) 13´ loop; DV; 1:1,33; cor; Portugal. Produced: A Festa Acabou. Directed and Image: Sofia Borges (PT). Edited: António Gadanho (PT) and Sofia Borges (PT). Sound: Rui Viana (PT).
PRIZES. AWARDS . NOMINATIONS
2017. Best Short Documentary-Jury. 6th Mumbai Shorts Film Festival (India)
2017. Nomination for Cinematography Award, Annual Copenhagen Film Festival (Denmark)
2016. Brand New Prize. IndieLisboa: Festival Internacional de Lisboa (Portugal)
2016. Portuguese Production Prize. XII Extremadoc I Festival de Cinema Documental (Spain)
2016. Special Award for Best Short Documentary. Myart Film Festival (Italy)
FILM FESTIVALS (SELECTION)
2017. Annual Copenhagen Film Festival 2017 (Denmark)
2017. International Film Festival of São Tomé (São Tomé and Príncipe)
2017. MiradaDocs. Tenerife (Spain)
2017. Annual Copenhagen Film Festival 2017 (Denmark)
2017. Västerås Film Festival (Sweden)
2017. Pune International Film Festival (India)
2017. The Duquesne University McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts (USA)
2017. ARKIPEL Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival (Indonésia)
2016. IndieLisboa: Festival Internacional de Lisboa (Portugal)
2016. Silk Screen Asian Film Festival (USA)
2016. Olhares do Mediterrâneo- cinema no feminino (Portugal)
2016. CineMigrante Film Festival (Argentina)
2016. XII Extremadoc I Festival de Cinema Documental (Spain)
2016. Myart Film Festival (Italy)
2011. Panorama Cinema São Jorge. (Portugal)
2011. Festival Vozes de Magaio: “Abrigar e Transumar a tradição Oral” (Portugal)
2011. Second International Conference of Young Urban Researchers. (Portugal)
2010. X Encontros de Viana; Viana do Castelo (Portugal)
2010. Seminário Internacional de Cultura e Imagem (Portugal)
2010. Workshop de Antropologia e Imagens. Ponte da Barca (Portugal)
2023. SÚLU SÁUA; 30´; DCP; 1:1, 33; cor; Portugal.
Production: Oxalá Filmes. Cast: Honório Soares (STP), Inocêncio Costa (STP), Marta Espírito Santo (STP). Directed: Sofia Borges (PT). Image: Afonso Gaudêncio (PT), Sound: Bernardo Theriaga (PT), Rui Viana Pereira. (PT) e Júlio Pereira (PT). Edited
: Sofia Borges (PT) e Diogo Vale (PT).
2022. 53 (video installation) 15´loop; DCP; 1:1, 33; cor; Portugal-São Tomé and Príncipe.
Co-production: Oxalá Filmes. Directed and edited: Sofia Borges (PT). Image: Afonso Gaudêncio(PT), Sound: Bernardo Theriaga (PT). Cast: Honório Soares (STP), Inocêncio Costa(STP), Marta Espírito Santo (STP).
2012. Bardo (video installation) 15´loop; HD; 1:1, 33; cor; Portugal
Directed and image: Sofia Borges and Marta Rema (PT), edited: Sofia Borges (PT) and Sound: Rui Viana (PT).
2015. MAXAMBA; 25´; DCP; 1:1, 33; cor; Portugal-USA.
Co-production and co-directed: Sofia Borges (PT) and Suzanne Barnard (USA). Sound: Don Maue (USA) Editing: António Gadanho (PT). Dialogues: Puspavantibai Valgi (MZ/PT) Amarchande Otomchande (IN/PT) Ila Lalgi (MZ/PT).
2009. EU ERA PRODUTOR DE MIM PRÓPRIO (video installation) 13´ loop; DV; 1:1,33; cor; Portugal. Produced: A Festa Acabou. Directed and Image: Sofia Borges (PT). Edited: António Gadanho (PT) and Sofia Borges (PT). Sound: Rui Viana (PT).
PRIZES. AWARDS . NOMINATIONS
2017. Best Short Documentary-Jury. 6th Mumbai Shorts Film Festival (India)
2017. Nomination for Cinematography Award, Annual Copenhagen Film Festival (Denmark)
2016. Brand New Prize. IndieLisboa: Festival Internacional de Lisboa (Portugal)
2016. Portuguese Production Prize. XII Extremadoc I Festival de Cinema Documental (Spain)
2016. Special Award for Best Short Documentary. Myart Film Festival (Italy)
FILM FESTIVALS (SELECTION)
2017. Annual Copenhagen Film Festival 2017 (Denmark)
2017. International Film Festival of São Tomé (São Tomé and Príncipe)
2017. MiradaDocs. Tenerife (Spain)
2017. Annual Copenhagen Film Festival 2017 (Denmark)
2017. Västerås Film Festival (Sweden)
2017. Pune International Film Festival (India)
2017. The Duquesne University McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts (USA)
2017. ARKIPEL Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival (Indonésia)
2016. IndieLisboa: Festival Internacional de Lisboa (Portugal)
2016. Silk Screen Asian Film Festival (USA)
2016. Olhares do Mediterrâneo- cinema no feminino (Portugal)
2016. CineMigrante Film Festival (Argentina)
2016. XII Extremadoc I Festival de Cinema Documental (Spain)
2016. Myart Film Festival (Italy)
2011. Panorama Cinema São Jorge. (Portugal)
2011. Festival Vozes de Magaio: “Abrigar e Transumar a tradição Oral” (Portugal)
2011. Second International Conference of Young Urban Researchers. (Portugal)
2010. X Encontros de Viana; Viana do Castelo (Portugal)
2010. Seminário Internacional de Cultura e Imagem (Portugal)
2010. Workshop de Antropologia e Imagens. Ponte da Barca (Portugal)
ART EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2022. 53 (video installation) by Sofia Borges. São Tomé Biennial of Art.
2012. Anexos by Sofia Borges. Gallery of the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon.
2010. I was a producer of myself (video installation) by Sofia Borges presented in Undercontrution curated by Mónica de Miranda(artist) and Paul Goodwin (researcher, urbanist and curator at Tate Britain) in Júlio de Matos Hospital, Lisbon.
2003. O que Fazer de uma Emoção Autêntica? (installation) realized with the collaboration of a hospital patient about the limits of the mind and the frontier between rational and irrational, Pavilhão 28, Júlio de Matos Hospital, Lisbon.
2000. Ground: Escultura by Sofia Borges. Ar.co, Almada.
1998. Banheira (installation) by Sofia Borges. Faculdade de Belas Artes, Lisbon.
1998-1999. Uma Troca de Correspondência: Pintura como Objeto. by Sofia Borges, and Ernest Zandhral(AUS). Art Contact Gallery. Viena, Austria.
PUBLICATIONS (SELECTION)
. Barnard, Suzanne; Greene, Erice; Gupta, Nisha. ‘ MAXAMBA and Memory-Making Amid Traumatic Displacement’(2021). Journal of Humanistic Psychology (JHP). USA. (English)
. Braga, Joana; Lages, Joana; Veiga, Inês. ‘Quinta Da Vitória When the Demolition Blossoms: Artistic Interventions Towards the Construction of a Just City’(2015). In Projects for an Inclusive City - Social Integration through Urban Growth Strategies, p. 136–56. Skopje: City of Skopje. (English)
. Lages, Joana. ‘Participation Is the New Black’ (2014). In Homeland, News From Portugal – Archive 2014. Portuguese representation of the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, edited by Pedro Campos Costa and Alessia Allegri. Lisbon: Note. Portugal. (English)
. Borges, Sofia. ‘Quando o artista decide abrir a porta do seu ateliê e começar a olhar à sua volta... ’ (2012). Revista de Critica de Ciências Sociais. p. 185-202. Coimbra. Portugal.
. Braga, Joana; Lages, Joana; Veiga, Inês. Quinta da Vitória: quando a demolição floresce’. ArteCapital, July21. 2015. (Portuguese)
.Borges, Sofia. ‘Quando os outros colaboram na prática artística. Estudo sobre o processo colaborativo e a criação artística (2010). MA Dissertation in Curatorial Studies. Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon - Technical University of Lisbon and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Portugal. (Portuguese)
. Miranda, Mónica e Goodwin, Paul. ‘Underconstruction’ (2009). Participation with video installation: Eu era Produtor de mim Próprio. Portugal. (Portuguese)
2022. 53 (video installation) by Sofia Borges. São Tomé Biennial of Art.
2012. Anexos by Sofia Borges. Gallery of the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon.
2010. I was a producer of myself (video installation) by Sofia Borges presented in Undercontrution curated by Mónica de Miranda(artist) and Paul Goodwin (researcher, urbanist and curator at Tate Britain) in Júlio de Matos Hospital, Lisbon.
2003. O que Fazer de uma Emoção Autêntica? (installation) realized with the collaboration of a hospital patient about the limits of the mind and the frontier between rational and irrational, Pavilhão 28, Júlio de Matos Hospital, Lisbon.
2000. Ground: Escultura by Sofia Borges. Ar.co, Almada.
1998. Banheira (installation) by Sofia Borges. Faculdade de Belas Artes, Lisbon.
1998-1999. Uma Troca de Correspondência: Pintura como Objeto. by Sofia Borges, and Ernest Zandhral(AUS). Art Contact Gallery. Viena, Austria.
PUBLICATIONS (SELECTION)
. Barnard, Suzanne; Greene, Erice; Gupta, Nisha. ‘ MAXAMBA and Memory-Making Amid Traumatic Displacement’(2021). Journal of Humanistic Psychology (JHP). USA. (English)
. Braga, Joana; Lages, Joana; Veiga, Inês. ‘Quinta Da Vitória When the Demolition Blossoms: Artistic Interventions Towards the Construction of a Just City’(2015). In Projects for an Inclusive City - Social Integration through Urban Growth Strategies, p. 136–56. Skopje: City of Skopje. (English)
. Lages, Joana. ‘Participation Is the New Black’ (2014). In Homeland, News From Portugal – Archive 2014. Portuguese representation of the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, edited by Pedro Campos Costa and Alessia Allegri. Lisbon: Note. Portugal. (English)
. Borges, Sofia. ‘Quando o artista decide abrir a porta do seu ateliê e começar a olhar à sua volta... ’ (2012). Revista de Critica de Ciências Sociais. p. 185-202. Coimbra. Portugal.
. Braga, Joana; Lages, Joana; Veiga, Inês. Quinta da Vitória: quando a demolição floresce’. ArteCapital, July21. 2015. (Portuguese)
.Borges, Sofia. ‘Quando os outros colaboram na prática artística. Estudo sobre o processo colaborativo e a criação artística (2010). MA Dissertation in Curatorial Studies. Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon - Technical University of Lisbon and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Portugal. (Portuguese)
. Miranda, Mónica e Goodwin, Paul. ‘Underconstruction’ (2009). Participation with video installation: Eu era Produtor de mim Próprio. Portugal. (Portuguese)
VIDEO INSTALLATIONS and PERFORMANCE (SELECTION)
2012. Bardo (installation-performance) by Sofia Borges and Marta Rema with the participation of Carolina Rito. Boavista Gallery, Lisbon.
2004. Harischandra (performance) celebrates the discovery of fire in Nature. Presented in the context of the Penetrações in Lisbon. Participants: Sofia Borges (conception and direction), Vítor Jorge (interpretation) and Pradip Virandra ( music percussion).
2001-2002. Soror (multimedia show: Dance, Sculpture, Image, Sound, Space and Light), 44´: Participants: Ana Mira(dancer), Sofia Borges (sculpture and scenography), André Sier (image and sound) and Gonçalo Ribeiro(light design) with the support of the Lugar Comum: Centro de Experimentação Artística e CEM. Project included: 3 artist residencies: Centa, Cem e Lugar Comum; 3 x public presentations: Cem, Lugar Comum e Jardim de Infância em Telheiras e a Videodocument: Journal Catastrophique directed by PauloMilHomens.
1998. Delícia de Anjo based in Tempest by W. Shakespeare, 30´(multimedia show) created by Sofia Borges with multi-screenings of video and photographies, performance, movements of the public on the stage to get different points of view and offering objects (with water) to the public. Participants: Sofia Borges (direction and performer), Vítor Jorge (performer) and Emílio (performer). Teatro Trindade: Sala Estúdio.
2012. Bardo (installation-performance) by Sofia Borges and Marta Rema with the participation of Carolina Rito. Boavista Gallery, Lisbon.
2004. Harischandra (performance) celebrates the discovery of fire in Nature. Presented in the context of the Penetrações in Lisbon. Participants: Sofia Borges (conception and direction), Vítor Jorge (interpretation) and Pradip Virandra ( music percussion).
2001-2002. Soror (multimedia show: Dance, Sculpture, Image, Sound, Space and Light), 44´: Participants: Ana Mira(dancer), Sofia Borges (sculpture and scenography), André Sier (image and sound) and Gonçalo Ribeiro(light design) with the support of the Lugar Comum: Centro de Experimentação Artística e CEM. Project included: 3 artist residencies: Centa, Cem e Lugar Comum; 3 x public presentations: Cem, Lugar Comum e Jardim de Infância em Telheiras e a Videodocument: Journal Catastrophique directed by PauloMilHomens.
1998. Delícia de Anjo based in Tempest by W. Shakespeare, 30´(multimedia show) created by Sofia Borges with multi-screenings of video and photographies, performance, movements of the public on the stage to get different points of view and offering objects (with water) to the public. Participants: Sofia Borges (direction and performer), Vítor Jorge (performer) and Emílio (performer). Teatro Trindade: Sala Estúdio.
SITE-SPECIFIC and PUBLIC SPACE (SELECTION)
2017-2018. A Céu Aberto (installation on public space). Curated by Gabriela Vaz-Pinheiro and created by Sofia Borges. Fundação EDP, Torre de Moncorvo.
2013- 2015. Coleção Jardins da Vitória: árvores e plantas provenientes do bairro da Quinta (installation on public space), a public garden with trees and plants donated by the inhabitants of the Quinta da Vitória neighborhood.
2006-2009. A Festa Acabou (installation on public space). Directed by Sofia Borges. Participants: Sofia Borges and Vasco Coelho (curators and artists), Ana Gonçalves (field research and consulting on anthropology), Marta Carvalho (field research and consulting on anthropology), Vítor Azevedo (design), Rui Viana (media), Rui Palmeiro and Inácio Francisco (producers). Quinta da Vitória, Loures, Portugal.
2009. O que nós não sabemos dos outros sítios, nós sabemos deste (installation on public space). Neighborhood of Quinta da Vitória in Loures. Participants: Sofia Borges and Vasco Coelho (curators and visual artists), Marta Carvalho (field research and consulting on anthropology), Vítor Azevedo(design), Rui Palmeiro, and Inácio Francisco (producers). This project was supported by Portela Council.
2004. São João dá cá um Balão para eu brincar /Saint John give me a balloon to play (installation on public space).Participants: Sofia Borges (conception and direction) and Marina Quay (collaboration) and the collaboration with the inhabitants of Rua de São Bento. By “Noites de São Bento” with the support of CEM, Portugal.
2002. Landing on Paint and Painting on Land (installation on public space) Participants: Sofia Borges (conception and direction) with the support of Ana Mira and the Clube Português de Artes e Ideias, Portugal.
1998. Abrigro/Shelter: (series of photographs of a street room installation in Rua Ivens. Portugal) by Sofia Borges (conception and realization).
2017-2018. A Céu Aberto (installation on public space). Curated by Gabriela Vaz-Pinheiro and created by Sofia Borges. Fundação EDP, Torre de Moncorvo.
2013- 2015. Coleção Jardins da Vitória: árvores e plantas provenientes do bairro da Quinta (installation on public space), a public garden with trees and plants donated by the inhabitants of the Quinta da Vitória neighborhood.
2006-2009. A Festa Acabou (installation on public space). Directed by Sofia Borges. Participants: Sofia Borges and Vasco Coelho (curators and artists), Ana Gonçalves (field research and consulting on anthropology), Marta Carvalho (field research and consulting on anthropology), Vítor Azevedo (design), Rui Viana (media), Rui Palmeiro and Inácio Francisco (producers). Quinta da Vitória, Loures, Portugal.
2009. O que nós não sabemos dos outros sítios, nós sabemos deste (installation on public space). Neighborhood of Quinta da Vitória in Loures. Participants: Sofia Borges and Vasco Coelho (curators and visual artists), Marta Carvalho (field research and consulting on anthropology), Vítor Azevedo(design), Rui Palmeiro, and Inácio Francisco (producers). This project was supported by Portela Council.
2004. São João dá cá um Balão para eu brincar /Saint John give me a balloon to play (installation on public space).Participants: Sofia Borges (conception and direction) and Marina Quay (collaboration) and the collaboration with the inhabitants of Rua de São Bento. By “Noites de São Bento” with the support of CEM, Portugal.
2002. Landing on Paint and Painting on Land (installation on public space) Participants: Sofia Borges (conception and direction) with the support of Ana Mira and the Clube Português de Artes e Ideias, Portugal.
1998. Abrigro/Shelter: (series of photographs of a street room installation in Rua Ivens. Portugal) by Sofia Borges (conception and realization).