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Pedro Neves Marques is a filmmaker, visual artist, and writer. Their work has been exhibited globally, having recently received a Special Prize at the Pinchuk Future Generation Art Prize (2021) and the Ammodo Tiger Short Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (2022), and being the Official Portuguese Representation at the 59th Venice Biennale. They had solo shows and film programs at the High Line, Castello di Rivoli, CA2M, CaixaForum, Perez Art Museum of Miami, Berardo Museum Collection, Gasworks, 1646, and e-flux, and participated in biennials such as Liverpool Biennial, Gwangju Biennale, Guangzhou Image Triennial, and New Museum Triennial, as well as in group shows and screenings at Kadist Foundation, Jeu de Paume, Guangdong Times Museum, Sculpture Center, Fondacíon Botín, Tate Modern Film, and Serpentine Galleries Cinema, among others. Their films have been screened in numerous film festivals, including the Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, having received prizes at Go Short, Short Waves, Sicilia Queer Festival, MixBrasil, and MIEEF. As a writer, they write regularly on the topics of art, cinema, ecology, gender, and science fiction for magazines and books. They co-edited e-flux journal’s special issue Supercommunity for the 56th Venice Biennale (2015), and the anthologies YWY, Searching for a Character Between Future Worlds: Gender, Ecology, Science Fiction (Sternberg Press, 2021) and The Forest and The School (Archive Books, 2015). In 2020 they co-founded the poetry press Pântano Books, with whom they published their first poetry collection, Sex as Care and Other Viral Poems (2020) and translated the North American poet CAConrad into Portuguese, among others.
Three works by Pedro Neves Marques
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Eco-Futures and Moving Image
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In terms of the future, my Anishinaabemowin language has a word, kobade—a very small word, but in reality an extremely sophisticated concept. The idea is that everything that’s in the past and the future is also in the now, but it’s not as simplistic as that. It’s more like there exists a spiral of intergenerational connections, so that even if you are in the present you have spirit persons at your side; they can be ancient spirits, considered to be from the past or from the future. Kobade is the recognition of all persons, not just human persons, and of all the intergenerational connections that we have, which are never linear, but spiral.
