IMAGINARY CRITTERS | Children's Workshop
22 Junho 2025 10h30
IMAGINARY CRITTERS | Children's Workshop
With Filipa Almeida
With Filipa Almeida
Ages: 6 to 11 years old
Date: June 22, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Rua de São Bento 432, 1250-221 Lisbon
Price: Free admission with registration
For more information and to register: info@zaratan.pt
Date: June 22, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Rua de São Bento 432, 1250-221 Lisbon
Price: Free admission with registration
For more information and to register: info@zaratan.pt
Inspired by the installation Bestiário Subterrâneo, children are invited to discover their own imaginary critters – creatures that live inside of us, in our dreams, fears, or desires. In this workshop, led by the artist Filipa Almeida, we will dig with our hands and our imagination.
The session begins with a challenge: like little archaeologists of the imagination, each participant will first draw their inner critter, giving visual form to the creatures that inhabit their own particular world.
In the second part, we move from drawing to matter. Working with clay, earth, and incorporating natural elements like small twigs, seeds, and leaves, each child will transform their drawing into a three-dimensional sculpture, finally giving body and texture to their imaginary critter.
The session begins with a challenge: like little archaeologists of the imagination, each participant will first draw their inner critter, giving visual form to the creatures that inhabit their own particular world.
In the second part, we move from drawing to matter. Working with clay, earth, and incorporating natural elements like small twigs, seeds, and leaves, each child will transform their drawing into a three-dimensional sculpture, finally giving body and texture to their imaginary critter.
Biography:
FILIPA ALMEIDA (1996) is a multidisciplinary visual artist and independent curator. She holds a degree in Culture and Communication Sciences from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (FLUL), and completed a Postgraduate degree in Art Curation at Nova University (FCSH) and a course in Aesthetics and Art History at the National Society of Fine Arts. In 2023, she finished her Master's degree in Contemporary Typographic and Editorial Practices at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon (FBAUL), with the dissertation Avoid Static Structures — the artist's book as an independent and expanded object. She writes regularly for Artecapital, where she publishes essays and critical texts on contemporary art and performing arts. She also works as a model in drawing and anatomical drawing classes at FBAUL, a practice that encourages her to deepen her own research into living in a world where we are both seeing and seen beings. In 2023, she was one of the artists selected for FLAD's Visual Arts Course in Loulé, culminating in her participation in the exhibition Onde vai o pião vai o ferrão.
Her notable exhibitions include Algo se mexeu (Útero, 2022), where she launched three artist's books, and Toshiba Dreams (ZDB, 2023). She is interested in revealing the millimeter-sized dance of the world and of matter and wishes to continue working and exploring possibilities in the worlds of curating, publishing, and the visual arts, believing that these disciplines are multiple, mutually unfolding and expanding, united in a continuous tension/extension.
FILIPA ALMEIDA (1996) is a multidisciplinary visual artist and independent curator. She holds a degree in Culture and Communication Sciences from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (FLUL), and completed a Postgraduate degree in Art Curation at Nova University (FCSH) and a course in Aesthetics and Art History at the National Society of Fine Arts. In 2023, she finished her Master's degree in Contemporary Typographic and Editorial Practices at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon (FBAUL), with the dissertation Avoid Static Structures — the artist's book as an independent and expanded object. She writes regularly for Artecapital, where she publishes essays and critical texts on contemporary art and performing arts. She also works as a model in drawing and anatomical drawing classes at FBAUL, a practice that encourages her to deepen her own research into living in a world where we are both seeing and seen beings. In 2023, she was one of the artists selected for FLAD's Visual Arts Course in Loulé, culminating in her participation in the exhibition Onde vai o pião vai o ferrão.
Her notable exhibitions include Algo se mexeu (Útero, 2022), where she launched three artist's books, and Toshiba Dreams (ZDB, 2023). She is interested in revealing the millimeter-sized dance of the world and of matter and wishes to continue working and exploring possibilities in the worlds of curating, publishing, and the visual arts, believing that these disciplines are multiple, mutually unfolding and expanding, united in a continuous tension/extension.
Detail from the exhibition “Bestiário Subterrâneo” by Filipa Almeida (2025)
Support: República Portuguesa – Cultura / Direção-Geral das Artes