Catarina Dias – INVERTED ON US

Since the beginning of her creative career, Catarina Dias has developed an oeuvre centred on the practice of drawing and its plastic and conceptual derivations, often in combination with photography and sculpture. In INVERTED ON US, the artist continues her work of questioning the enigma of visibility: the mystery of images and words, their transparencies and dissimilarities, analogies and metamorphoses, the clear reflections and tacit echoes, mirrors and ghosts that give them existence. Catarina Dias' work incorporates the fluidity between word and image, erosion and assemblage, the inner and outer worlds. Using a variety of media, from drawing to installation, and materials such as fabric or paper, her practice is characterised by its dense and contemplative nature.

«Just as a burning flame casts no shadow in the real world, the radiant energy that constitute these works refuses to exist through shadows or illusions. Thus, it is through these flashes of light which constitute certain artworks that one might reveal how the experience of reality is truly completed.» writes Filipa Correia de Sousa, curator of the exhibition.

Catarina Dias (London, 1979) lives and works in Lisbon. She holds an Advanced Course at Ar.Co Lisbon (2002), and a Master's degree in Fine Arts from Byam Shaw School of Art (2003).  Her solo exhibitions include THROUGH WET AIR, Pavilhão Branco, Lisbon Municipal Galleries (2024), WE KNOW YOU DON’T SEE US, Project Space, Encounter, and Jahn und Jahn, Lisbon, (2023), Mamute, Galeria Vera Cortês, Lisbon, (2019). Also noteworthy is the happening THIS IS HEAT, Old School #42, Lisbon (2016). She has participated in group exhibitions such as Contravisões, Photography in the António Cachola Collection, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas (2023), COME HERE THERE’S SOMETHING I WANT TO SHOW YOU, with Corita Kent, UPPERCUT, Lisbon, (2019), 10000 anos depois entre Vénus e Marte, Galeria Municipal do Porto (2017), The Colour of an Eclipse, with Pedro A.H. Paixão, Ar Sólido, Lisbon (2016), among others. Catarina Dias has collaborated since 2012 with the artists and coreographers Sofia Dias and Victor Roriz on various scenographic projects.

Her work is featured in several public and private collections, including: EDP Foundation Art Collection, CACE – Coleção de Arte Contemporânea do Estado, EGEAC/Lisbon City Council Collection, António Cachola Collection, Armando and Maria João Cabral Collection, Norlinda and José Lima Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, and the Ilídio Pinho Foundation Collection, among others. Her work is represented by Jahn und Jahn. In 2011, she was nominated for the EDP Young Artists.