Helena Almeida lives and works in Lisbon. After studying fine arts in the Portuguese capital, she moved to Paris in 1964, where she became interested in abstraction and photography. Her creative process - simple yet with a strong poetical charge - uses her whole or fragmented body as an object, and eliminates all boundaries between artistic disciplines such as performance, painting and video, with photography as a conjugation of all these expressions.
Almeida has shown her work at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon (1983 and 1987), Fundação Serralves in Oporto (1995), the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea in Santiago de Compostela and the Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, in Badajoz (both in 2000), the Centre d’Art Santa Mònica in Barcelona (2005) and Fundación Telefónica in Madrid (2008), among others; in 2005 she represented Portugal at the Venice Biennale. Her work has been recognised with awards such as Photo España 2003 Prize and the Extremadura Prize of Creation 2008 of the Junta de Extremadura.
DISEÑO WEB MALLORCA