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Manuela Marques

Through taking photographs, Manuela Marques has taken hold of an imaginative, highly subjective, poetic and intimate world. She tackles and mingles diverse genres (portraits, still life, landscape), varied themes (trees, stones, bodies, objects, architectonic details), revealing new ways of perceiving. Out of context, with no background, the images become mysterious and incite new interpretations. The photographs, then, invite the viewer to wonder about the reality she perceives, even to doubt her own perception.


Galerie Anne Barrault in Paris, Gallery Caroline Pagès in Lisbon, and Gallery Vermelho in Sao Paulo represent Manuela Marques. Lately, she has had monographic exhibitions at Château d’Eau in Toulouse (2016), at Circulo de Artes Plasticas in Coimbra (2015), at the Centre Régional de la Photographie in Nord-Pas-de-Calais (2015), and at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Paris (2014). Several art critics and journalists have written about her work, among them: Michel Poivert, Sergio Mah, Claire Guillot, Lisette Lagnado, Jacinto Lageira, Christianne Vollaire, Natacha Wolinski, and Joao Silverio.
Born 1959
Hometown Tondela, Portugal
Lives and Works Prais, France

Manuela Marques Gallery Art

Galleries

Galerie Anne Barrault

Permanent Collection

Fonds national d’art contemporain, Paris

FRAC Auverge, Clermont-Ferrand, France

FRAC Haute Normandie, France

Musée d'Art Moderne André Malraux, Le Havre

Fonds départemental d’art contemporain de l’Essonne

Collection Agnès b., Paris

Banco Espirito Santo Art Collection, Lisbonne, Portugal

Berardo Museum Foundation, Lisbonne, Portugal

Banco Espirito Santo Investment, Brésil

Museu da Imagem, Braga, Portugal

Collection Institut Camoes, Paris

Museu da Imagem, Braga, Portugal

Wedge Collection, Toronto, Canada

Representing Galleries

Gallery Caroline Pagès, Lisbon, Portugal

Gallery Vermelho, Sao Paulo, Brazil