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Patrícia Geraldes lives and works in Porto and holds a degree in Painting from FBAUP (Faculty of Fine Art Porto). The focus of her artistic research is the ancient relationship between Humanity and Nature, using materials and natural resources found in the forests, mountains and beaches, developing installations that invoke notions of sustainability and ancestry. In addition to her personal research, she has developed artistic residencies in which she develops projects of interventions, and art and community. She is co-founder of the CampaNice collective, an independent creation and programming space in Porto, and the artistic director of the Portuguese residency project, Encontros da Primavera, Anthropology, Contemporary Art and Territory in Picote.
She collects stories and memories and studies rituals, creating representations of craft and traditional ways of knowing and doing—honoring their shared, persistent, and timeless wisdom. She is deeply interested in the relationship between human beings and nature, in the close, intimate ties we establish with materials. What do they offer us? What ancestral knowledge do they carry within? This interest translates into a methodological focus on sustainability—recovering materials that have been discarded or fallen out of use. She works with wool, linen, wicker, and other natural findings retrieved from forests, mountains, and beaches. She seeks to develop artistic practices that emerge harmoniously with the living world—art that fosters a sense of ethics, articulation, and co-responsibility between communities and the environment, between human and non-human beings. Her art is a gesture of refusal—a rejection of the reckless use and exploitation of natural resources. Through her work, she strives to restore a deeper, more ancestral connection with the Earth. She draws from the abundant knowledge embedded in traditional practices to create art that revives an ethics of being. This material and immaterial heritage inspires her to weave cultural traditions with locally produced artifacts, geological materials, and self-sustaining ecological practices.
Workshop: Collective Journal
The workshop will focus on the community work of our ancestors in the linen production cycle—from sowing to transforming the plant into fabric. This process was once intertwined with ritual singing, dancing, and communal celebrations. Participants will engage in drawing, collage-making, writing, and using old photographs, plants, and songs to co-create an artistic book that expresses deep respect for nature and community.
