About

Research Context

Portugal

Research Interests

Folk art | appropriation | Estado Novo | collection

Institutional Subunit

NOVA FCSH

Biographical Note

Sónia Mota Ribeiro is an artist and an anthropologist. She has been working as a visual artist since 2006, having participated in several national and international art projects and traveled as a correspondent and photographer for the Landscape Journals project between 2015 and 2019. She holds a MA in Anthropology (Contemporary Themes - NOVA FCSH), with an ethnographic study on the relationship between art and environment, and a Master’s in Art (Photography - FBAUL), where she investigated the materiality of the photographic object. She is currently attending the Doctoral Program in Anthropology: Policies and Images of Culture and Museology (NOVA FCSH / ISCTE), where she researches the constitution of a collection of clay figurines during the Estado Novo regime, in Portugal.