{"id":1972,"date":"2026-10-02T16:00:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/luisaleao.com\/?page_id=1972"},"modified":"2026-10-02T20:09:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T20:09:31","slug":"sobre","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/luisaleao.com\/en\/sobre\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cr\u00e9ditos: Nuno Alex<\/span><\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Lu\u00edsa Le\u00e3o (Bras\u00edlia, 1998) lives in Faro, where she has been an artist-in-residence at the GamaRama Gallery since 2024. She holds a PhD in Arts from the University of Beira Interior (2026), as well as a Bachelor\u2019s and Master\u2019s degree in Fashion Design from the same institution (2019; 2021), having undertaken academic exchanges at the Politecnico di Milano and the Federal University of Cear\u00e1. Her practice has its roots in the sewing techniques she explored as a child, which she now revisits in abstract and organic, material-textile paintings and sculptures.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

She works with wool fibre in a vertical manner, incorporating heirloom textiles into a political-affective exploration of the relationship between body and time, mediated by the process. She therefore seeks to inhabit temporalities that escape the accelerated and fragmented logic of the contemporary world. In this journey, thread acts as the minimal unit of continuity, a universal and ancestral element that interconnects matter, body and earth in a process of subjective and dialogical recomposition.<\/span><\/p>

Com uma trajet\u00f3ria expositiva regular desde 2022, destaca-se a sua sele\u00e7\u00e3o como finalista na Mostra Nacional de Jovens Criadores (2025), bem como as exposi\u00e7\u00f5es na Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes (Lisboa, 2026), no Madrid Design Festival (2026) e no Pal\u00e1cio Gama Lobo (2025). A sua investiga\u00e7\u00e3o pr\u00e1tica tem sido impulsionada por resid\u00eancias art\u00edsticas, como a ARES, no Helsinki International Artists Programme (Finl\u00e2ndia, 2026), a Resid\u00eancia de Arte T\u00eaxtil no Tekstiilikeskus (Est\u00f4nia, 2026) e a resid\u00eancia do 9\u00ba Simp\u00f3sio Internacional de Arte Contempor\u00e2nea do Museu da Guarda (2026). O seu trabalho integra cole\u00e7\u00f5es p\u00fablicas e privadas.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Cr\u00e9ditos: Andr\u00e9 Matos, Nuno Alex e Luize Gulbe<\/span><\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Cr\u00e9ditos: Nuno Alex Sobre Lu\u00edsa Le\u00e3o (Bras\u00edlia, 1998) vive em Faro, onde \u00e9 artista pl\u00e1stica residente na Galeria GamaRama desde 2024. Doutora em Artes pela Universidade da Beira Interior (2026), \u00e9 licenciada e mestre em Design de Moda pela mesma institui\u00e7\u00e3o (2019; 2021), tendo realizado mobilidades acad\u00eamicas no Politecnico di Milano e na Universidade Federal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1972","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/luisaleao.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/luisaleao.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/luisaleao.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luisaleao.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luisaleao.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/luisaleao.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2017,"href":"https:\/\/luisaleao.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1972\/revisions\/2017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/luisaleao.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}