Tatiana Macedo
Still Moving Inside Me
Solo Exhibition | Gallery 1
Opening 24.04.25
24.04 - 28.06
Apoio | Supported by república portuguesa – cultura / direção-geral das artes. rtcp – rede de teatros e cineteatros portugueses.
We are pleased to invite you to the opening of Tatiana Macedo’s solo exhibition at gnration in Braga, on April 24th.
A leading visual artist, Tatiana Macedo has developed a 20-year creative practice spanning photography, essay film, installation, cinema, and sound. With a transdisciplinary approach and academic background in Fine Arts, Photography, and Visual Anthropology, her work – recognised and exhibited both nationally and internationally – arrives in Braga for the first time through Cinex, a programme of Braga 25 – Portuguese Capital of Culture.
In Still Moving Inside Me, her new multichannel video installation, the artist continues to explore the voice of the image devoid of text or narrator, and the viewer’s tension caught between movement and stillness in the actions and gestures that cross the frame, challenge its boundaries, or define themselves within it. Tatiana Macedo’s work is characterised by its questioning of what we understand as photography, cinema, painting, sculpture, dance or performance – in the way she composes images, sounds, atmospheres, and narrative rhythms that project images of reality in order to become realities of the image, essayistic reflection, or fiction.
In her first film, Seems So Long Ago, Nancy (2012), filmed at Tate Britain and Tate Modern in London, Tatiana Macedo spent three months capturing the sounds and images of those performing security work inside the museum. The film was awarded the SAW Film Prize by the American Anthropological Association – AAA (Washington DC, 2014), and has been screened at museums, galleries, and film festivals around the world.
In 2015, she became the first winner of the Sonae Media Art Prize with her video installation 1989, and in the same year received the João Hogan Grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to attend the International Studio Program at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, where she was a resident artist for 12 months. In 2020, INTERSECCIÓN – International Film Festival of A Coruña dedicated a retrospective to her work. She is represented in several public and private collections, including those of the Portuguese Ministry of Culture, MAAT/Fundação EDP, Lisbon City Council, MNAC-MC – National Museum of Contemporary Art of Chiado, and the Otazu Foundation.
In the artist’s own words: “Photography and Cinema are as much about what they reveal as what they conceal. Drawing an analogy with sound, one might say that Photography and Cinema exist in the intervals of silence.” It is with this idea that Tatiana Macedo presents a new installation as part of CINEX, within the Braga 25 – Portuguese Capital of Culture programme.
This exhibition is part of Cinex, a programme of Braga 25 – Portuguese Capital of Culture.
