NuPAA at UQAM

Professor Rosa Berardo (PPGACV/FAV/UFG), in collaboration with Professor Romeo Gongora, coordinator of the Laboratoire d’art et de recherche décoloniaux (LabARD), teaches the course Autoreprésentation à travers les pratiques artistiques comme exercice décolonial et affirmation identitaire at the Faculté des Arts of UQAM, Montréal, Canada.

Today, Professor Manoela dos Anjos Afonso Rodrigues has been invited to share her research on Autobiographical Artistic Practices, developed within the Autobiographical Artistic Practices Research Group (NuPAA/UFG/CNPq) since 2017.

Manoela dos Anjos Afonso Rodrigues is a visual artist and Tenured Professor at the Faculty of Visual Arts (FAV), Federal University of Goiás (UFG), Brazil. She holds a PhD from Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London (CCW/UAL, 2017), and was a Visiting Fellow at the GSAS /Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University (2022). She is a Permanent Professor in the Art and Visual Culture Graduate Programme (PPGACV/UFG), where she supervises master’s, doctoral, and postdoctoral research focused on autobiographical artistic practices.

Founder and leader of the Autobiographical Artistic Practices Research Group (NuPAA/FAV/UFG/CNPq), she is also a member of the Artistic Poetics Committee (CPA) of the National Association of Researchers in Visual Arts (ANPAP), having served as its President from 2019 to 2020. Manoela is the founder and coordinator of NuPAA Museu da Pessoa, the first Museu da Pessoa hub in the state of Goiás, dedicated to investigating artists’ narratives about their own artistic practice. She currently serves as Deputy Coordinator of Academic Programmes in the Arts Area at CAPES (2022–2026).

In this lecture, Manoela will unfold the conceptual foundations that guide the artistic research developed within the NuPAA/UFG/CNPq, where autobiography and the autobiographical are explored as poetic and critical gestures emerging from the field of visual arts. Through selected examples of works created in recent years by artist-researchers in the group, she will reveal how self-narrative, memory, and artistic practice intertwine, shaping new spaces of reflection and invention within these shared fields of research.