Luísa Ferreira
Born in Lisbon in 1961, she is a freelance photographer who completed her master's degree in Design and Visual Culture – Photography Studies at ESD/IADE in 2011. The city and its inhabitants are two of the central themes of her work, which reflects a social and political awareness of current events. A gaze in which enchantment and documentary sense coexist and give rise to precise but dreamlike images - sensitive and unique captures of moments and environments.
In 2025, she won the Authors Award, in Visual Arts category, with the exhibition “Intimacy” at Casa da Avenida, and her “Polaroids” were shown in RTP2 channel as bumpers. Previously, she had received the 2019 Authors Award, Best Photography Work, in Visual Arts category, for the exhibition “branco” at Galeria Monumental (2018), a project developed from self-portraiture to construct the notion of identity fiction, which included the publication of an artist's book.
Her most recent exhibitions include “Um cão que sonha – Agustina” (A Dog That Dreams – Agustina) at Mira Galerias (2025), “Loreto” at SNBA (2022), and “A Ciência Cura” (Science Heals), curated by David Santos, at the Museum of Neo-Realism (2022-2023). In 2009, she took part in the exhibition “Au Féminin. Women Photographing Women 1849-2009”, curated by Jorge Calado, at the Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris. Two of the most representative exhibitions of her early work are “Objects no longer have colours/ but the shadows of objects have their colours/ a friend of mine/ who has the key to the docks/ also thinks so” (Picabia), an installation in containers inside Pavilhão AB, at Jardim do Tabaco, Port of Lisbon (1993) and “Matérias” (Materials), at the Natural History Museum (1992).
Matérias, from XYZ Books (2022), and A Ciência Cura: o conhecimento no combate à covid-19 em Portugal (March-June 2020), INCM / FCT / MCTES (2021) are her most recent publications, and “Atelier 13” was included in Kioskzine 7 (2023).
