1978, Coimbra, Portugal

Nuno Carvalho develops a multidisciplinary practice of a conceptual and performative nature in which the body, objects, time, and action function as structural axes. His work is articulated through an economy of means that privileges the ephemeral, the minimal, and the seemingly banal, transforming them into devices for poetic and critical reflection.

Through action, performativity, and the logic of the snapshot, his works generate open situations that function as precise gestures, laden with ambiguity and symbolic resonance. Carvalho constructs scenes where the everyday is displaced from its usual function to reveal tensions, paradoxes, and contradictions inherent in contemporary experience.

Humor, absurdity, and irony permeate her practice not as a narrative end in themselves, but as strategies that destabilize perception and question the mechanisms of reality. In this sense, her work proposes a poetics of interruption: actions and objects that suspend immediate meaning and open a space for contemplation, estrangement, and critical thinking for the viewer.