Photo by Matilde Viegas, for her project Alento
Inês Neto dos Santos is a multi-disciplinary artist, born in Lisbon and based in London/Brussels. She completed an MA in Visual Communication at Royal College of Art (2016) and a BA in Graphic Design and Illustration at London College of Communication (2013). Her practice moves between performance, installation and social sculpture, investigating food in its intertwined socio-political, cultural and ecological dimensions. Through her work, Inês creates contexts and frameworks to explore collaboration, generosity, care and togetherness.
In recent years, she has delved into the practical and metaphorical dimensions of fermentation, as a gateway into our enmeshed, multispecies existence. More recently, Inês’ research has taken her into the study of beans and their soil regeneration qualities, investigating their relationship to supported sustenance and care.
Exhibiting her work often happens in participatory formats of knowledge exchange and workshops. Inês has been a guest lecturer at Kingston University, Brighton University, Royal College of Art and Westminster University.
Since March 2021, Inês has co-lead the online course Food Cosmogonies with artist Nora Silva, first at the Institute for Postnatural Studies in Madrid, and currently in collaboration with the Barns Art Centre, NY. The course seeks to propose food as central to the world-making process. This course arises from the collective The Gramounce, which Inês co-runs with Nora Silva and Finn Thomson.
Between 2016 and 2018, Inês directed Mesa, a project rooted in collaborations with other artists, resulting in performances, supperclubs and events which explored food as a global language, to democratise access to art and the creative practice. Through the project, she expanded on her interest in how using symbols, metaphors and re-tellings might help us overcome, discuss and/or better understand contemporary issues or emotional states. Mesa is no longer in action.
PUBLISHED:
- Tender Touches (2020), co-curated/co-authored with Huma Kabakci, published by Open Space.
- Bonfim (2018), artist book, limited edition of 30 copies, riso printed, hand-bound.
Published by Illustration School. Porto, Portugal.
- Liquid Inbetweeness: Matrixiality and Water as a Metaphor (dissertation), 2017, MA Visual Communication,
Royal College of Art, London. Published by AVANCA Film Festival.
RESIDENCIES:
- EVA International, Limerick, Ireland 2020-2021
- Radical Residency V at Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop, August-September, London 2020
- Villa Lena Residency, Tuscany 2019 and 2021
- Z.U.T. Residency, Lisbon 2018, curated by Alice Bonnot
- Illustration School Residency, Porto 2018
- Barbecho residency, Madrid, 2017
- Z.U.T. Residency, Athens 2017, curated by Alice Bonnot
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