Maria Manuela Lopes is a visual artist and researcher based in Portugal and the UK. Her current practice is transdisciplinary and based on issues of memory and self-identity informed by life sciences and medical research and presented in the form of time-based installations, occasionally including biological materials. Lopes has studied fine arts – Porto, Portugal and did an MA at Goldsmiths, University of London in London. She has a doctorate from UCA Farnham/Brighton University UK, working with representational strategies of Alzheimer’s disease in a neuroscience laboratory. She is currently involved in a post-doctoral project that extends the PhD project into a wider cultural scenario questioning memory practices and human enhancement in a techno-heightened society. Lopes is also assistant-director of two residency programs: 1) “Artists in Labs” Ectopia – Lisbon, and 2) Cultivamos Cultura, a residency program in Alentejo.

Author's contact: maria@manuelalopes.com