About
Inês Catarino (b. 1994) is a multidisciplinary artist, with her work rooted in analog photography and its alternative processes. In high school (Visual Arts, 2012) she joined the Analog Laboratory Club, where she learned the basics of developing and printing from photographic film.
She graduated in Photography at the Instituto Politécnico de Tomar (2016), where she started developing work with natural motifs and pigments, e.g. prints (called Anthotype). She was part of organizing, and participating, in a few community events related to photography and other arts. Also organizing a few collective pop-up exhibitions in Lisbon throughout the years.
In 2023, Lisbon, she enrolled in a series of workshops, offered by Tira-Olhos (an experimental photography association), where photography met performance, drawing and other mediums. Concluding it with the project Somatic Cyanotype - exhibited in a few photographic festivals and other exhibitions.
Her present work encompasses slow analog photography, the extraction of natural pigments for printing and dyeing. Together with other mediums like fabric, sewing, writing and others, in a search for the sublime between nature and human action. Inviting the search for a more sustainable view of photography and arts, and the idea of ephemeral work, that replicates the cycles of nature.
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