Bio
Maria Trabulo is a Portuguese visual artist and researcher based in Porto whose practice spans installation, photography, sculpture and video. Her research-driven projects activate archives as sites of public memory, restitution, post-conflict preservation and community gathering. Focusing on how heritage is preserved, destroyed or reconstructed after political rupture, she examines the relationship between historical narratives and collective memory. She studied at the Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien and the University of Porto and is currently a doctoral candidate at the School of Arts of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa.
Project Description
Working with the collection and archive of the
Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, Maria Trabulo investigates how traces of Portugal’s dictatorship remain legible in artworks and institutional records. Treating artworks as witnesses, victims and survivors of political power, she examines acquisition files, inventories and correspondence to map patterns of visibility, censorship, exile, preservation and neglect. Through a new body of video, photographic and drawing works, the project reflects on institutional complicity, acts of resistance and the political dimensions of cultural visibility.
