Photo by Matilde Viegas, for her project Alento
Inês Neto dos Santos is a multi-disciplinary artist, born in Lisbon and based in Brussels. Her practice moves between performance, installation and social sculpture, investigating food in its intertwined socio-political, cultural and ecological dimensions. In her work, Inês creates contexts and frameworks to explore collaboration, generosity, care and togetherness.In recent years, Inês has delved into the practical and metaphorical dimensions of fermentation, as a gateway into our enmeshed, multispecies existence.
Inês has exhibited internationally, and has been a guest lecturer at Kingston University, Brighton University, Royal College of Art, London College of Fashion, Westminster University and Academie des Beaux-Arts/École Supérieure des Arts.
Since 2020, she has co-directed The Gramounce, a cultural organisation at the intersection of food, art and politics, alongside artist Nora Silva. In September 2023, they launched the first Food & Art Alternative MA, a course which proposes food as central to any world-making process.
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:
- Bahaus of the Seas Sails - In Between the Tides, 2024-25
- Las Mecias, Alpujarra, 2023
- BLANK / Craveiral, Alentejo, 2023
- EVA International, Limerick, Magic Carpets project, 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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