Izabel Nejur
Izabel Nejur (b. 1981, Rio Branco - Acre, Amazonia) travels from Brazil to Portugal in 2018. A non-binary artist, she uses her fluidity as the main tool in her multidisciplinary work. Her restlessness is the driving force behind her creation, her intuition and wisdom for innovation. She has worked in cinema, dance, performance, writing and DIY video art. She has a degree in Journalism and postgraduate qualifications in cinema (UTP-Curitiba/Brazil) and dance (FAP-Faculdades de Artes do Paraná/Brazil). She studied at FOR (Formação Olga Roriz) - 2018/2019. She is currently researching GIGANTESCA, her first solo in Portugal, which was trialled at Gaivotas 6, Interferências, Festival IMERSÃO - Queer Art Lab and Segundas na Z at Galeria Zé dos Bois in 2023. In 2024, she took part as an alumni in the Queer Art Lab, mentored by Gaya de Medeiros, and was supported by the Self-Uncensored (ORG.I.A/Self-Mistake) project. In Lisbon, Nejur was part of the wwwperformanceart collective that occupied Palácio do Grilo in 2022-2023, acted in the performance NO BODY NEVER MIND by Ana Borralho and João Galante at Gulbenkian - 2023, BRUTA, a 16mm film by Aline Belfort in partnership with wwwperformanceart, created and edited the video poem ‘SEDE’ which was shown at INTERVENÇÃO QUEER Lisboa - 2022, she was a creative performer in the immersive show ‘Entre Portas’ by director and choreographer Helen Esther Aschauer, she was also a performer in the show Travessias by Marta Jardim, Batucada e Barricada by Marcelo Evelin, among other works with performance, audiovisual and fashion.
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- 19.08 - 23.08.2024
- Artists in Residency
Izabel Nejur in residency at Espaço Alkantara
GIGANTESCA
- Artists in Residency