Nominated by
Claudia Fischer
CHANT portraits, 2004,
Installation view, Matadero Madrid 2012, Photography by Moritz Elbert
PORTRAIRE, notas nas margens de um retrato, 2011
Film still
HORS SUJET portrait, 2009,
Installation view, Stenersen Museum Oslo 2009, Photography by Moritz Elbert
VUE portraits, 2009,
Installation view, Espaço Alkantara Lisbon 2009, Photography by Maria Alonso Lescún
PORTRAIRE cadernos, 2011,
Installation view at the "Occupazione" exhibition, Lisbon
CCM posto 7 - A máquina do medo, 2010,
(with Moritz Elbert), Installation view, Diário de Notícias Gallery, Lisbon
CCM Centro Comercial da Mouraria, 2001/2010,
(with Moritz Elbert), Installation
Senso / REFLECTION portrait, 2005/2006
Sequência para um estado de graça - Les Foins, 2001
IN MEDIAS RES, 2014,
Video installation, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, installation view
Luciana Fina
(Bari, Italy,1962) Lives and works in Lisbon (Portugal). After graduating in Portuguese and French Literature, she works as an independent film curator, collaborating mainly with the Cinemateca Portuguesa (1991 – 1998, Lisbon, Portugal) and other institutions in Portugal, Italy, France and Brazil.
Between 1993 and 1996 she collaborates with João Fiadeiro's company Re.Al and is part of the artistic direction of the “LAB, projects in motion” (interdisciplinar laboratories of contemporary artistic creation).
In 1998 she directed her first documentary film. Since then, choosing to diversify forms and strategies of creation, she has developed a work that shifts between cinema and visual arts, migrating frequently towards exhibition halls. Her artworks are regularly displayed in cinema and visual arts contexts. Using different mediums - film, installation, photography, editions - she focuses her creation on topics pertaining to migrations and interculturalism, while at the same time investigating the relationship between Cinema and Art. Since 2004 she is creating a gallery of film portraits (installations), centering on questions pertaining to representation of the other, exposure time, the relationship with the model and the consequences arising from this.
She is currently working on a new documentary project.
Of special note are the solo shows: "O Tempo de um Retrato" at SOLAR Cinematic Art Gallery (Vila do Conde, Portugal, 2006) and at “Espaço do Tempo - Convento da Saudação (Montemor-O-Novo, Portugal, 2008), "HORS SUJET portrait", Temps d'Images Festival - Espaço Alkantara (Lisbon, 2009), "CHANT portraits" at the Museu do Chiado - Contemporary Art Museum - (Lisbon, 2004) and at the Escena Contemporanea Festival - Matadero (Madrid, 2012) and "CCM" (with Moritz Elbert) at the CAM - Centro de Arte Moderna of the Calouste Gulbenkian Fundation (Lisbon, 2002). She participated at the Luleå Biennial (Luleå, Sweden, 2007), and in the exhibitions: "Lisbonne Lisboa", La Villette (Paris, France, 2003/4), "Off the Beaten Path", Stenersen Museum (Oslo, Norway, 2009), "Tiresias video de artistas made in Portugal" Centro Cultural de España (Montevideo, Uruguay, 2010), "A República Revisitada" (Lisbon, 2010), "Occupazione" Padiglione Italia nel Mondo (Lisbon and Venice, 2011). www.lucianafina.net
