The exhibition Sou aquele que estou longe (I am the one who is far away), curated by Susana Chiocca, presents three artists: Edicleison Freitas, Hugo Leite, and Thales Luz.

The creators focus their artistic practice on the body and its performativity, offering a personal, ritualized, and political reflection on it. The works, which combine image-movement, installation, sound, and sculpture, offer different perspectives on displacement, whether spatial, material, spiritual, and/or identity-related.

Ed Freitas is a visual and transdisciplinary artist born in Northeast Brazil. His work combines performance, installation, sculpture, and textile arts to investigate the Presence-Installation, a concept he is developing in his PhD in Contemporary Art at the University of Coimbra. Using threads, cloaks, and sensory objects as devices of memory and liturgy, he constructs poetics of the body as a living archive of ancestry. Winner of the World Cultural Council Award (2022), Freitas presents works that tension the sensitive and the political, with international performances at festivals, residencies, and exhibitions in Brazil, Portugal, France, Romania, Germany, and the US. He integrates his practice with curating, teaching, and critical thinking at Ateliar Nuno Fonseca (Coimbra).

@ed_freitas

Hugo Leite was born in 1979 and is from Aveiro. He is a visual artist with artistic projects in performance, video, and photography. His work addresses issues of identity related to gender roles, sexuality, the dialectic of space, intimacy, and trauma, investigating possibilities of representation based on experiences, memories, and personal history. He holds a Master's degree in Contemporary Artistic Creation from the University of Aveiro. He is a PhD student in Contemporary Art at the College of Arts of the University of Coimbra. He has participated in collective and individual exhibitions.

https://sites.google.com/view/hugoleite/hugo-leite

Thales Luz is a Brazilian artist living in Portugal. He is a PhD candidate in contemporary art (University of Coimbra), holds a master's degree in arts (Federal University of Ceará), and has technical training in dance (Sesc/Senac, Brazil). His artistic practice involves a ritualistic engagement of the body with ancestral and spiritual issues, as seen in works such as Ossuário (2015), Exumação (2016), Cavalgada Selvagem (2018-2021), Figueira do Inferno (2021), and Casa do Diabo (2023), presented in Brazil, Mexico, and Portugal. @thales.luz