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Paulo Luís Almeida nasceu em Lourenço Marques (actual Maputo), Moçambique.
Formou-se em Artes Plásticas – Pintura, FBAUP. Foi bolseiro da FCT em 2006 e doutorou-se pela Universidad del País Vasco em 2009, com uma tese sobre as interferências de processos performativos nas práticas pictóricas contemporâneas.
Há alguns anos começou a realizar pequenas disrupções nos espaços e momentos do seu quotidiano. Estas intervenções não saiam do espaço doméstico da casa e da rua onde vivia, eram realizadas sem qualquer anúncio e geralmente mal documentadas. Percebeu depois que também podia fazer desenhos e pinturas para evitar a exposição pública das intervenções e contornar a impossibilidade da sua realização; que desenhar podia ser uma forma estimulante de as pensar, realizar e documentar.
Esta relação entre contextos performativos e objectos pictóricos passou a contaminar o seu trabalho, um ensaio visual contínuo em torno de micro-narrativas do quotidiano (algumas das quais sem outra pretensão que não a de inventar fábulas para a vida de todos os dias).
O trabalho, que se desdobra em desenho, pintura e performance, resulta de noções muito simples: a noção narrativa de prova; o deslocamento de gestos quotidianos; a transferência de acções entre contextos performativos.
É Professor na Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto e investigador no Instituto de Investigação em Arte, Design e Sociedade.

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Paulo Luís Almeida was born in Lourenço Marques (currently Maputo), Mozambique, and came to Portugal in the mid-seventies.
He graduated in Fine Arts – Painting, at the School of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. He was Research Fellow of the Foundation for Science and Technology in 2006, and obtained his PhD from the University of the Basque Country in Spain in 2009, with a thesis on the interferences of performance-based methodologies in contemporary pictorial practices.
A few years ago he began to perform small disruptions in everyday life spaces and events. These performances were focused on the domestic space of the house and street where he lived; they were never advertised and usually poorly documented. He then realized he could also draw and paint to avoid the public exposure of the performances and to escape the impossibility of carrying them out; that drawing could be an equally stimulating way of thinking, making and documenting them.
This relationship between pictorial practice and performance contexts began to contaminate his work, a continuous visual essay around micro narratives of everyday life (some of which have no other intention than to invent fables and inscribe them in a quotidian experience). The work, which extends through drawings, paintings and performance, is defined by very simple notions: the narrative notion of test; the displacement of everyday life gestures; the transference of actions between performance contexts.
He is an Assistant Professor at the School of Fine Arts in the University of Porto and a researcher in the Research Institute in Art, Design and Society.

WORK

THE FUNAMBULIST
SEMAPHORE FLAG
A VISITA (THE VISIT)
MATCHING BODY AND BUILDING #1
WATER
CHOOSE AN OBJECT
MATCHING PATTERNS #2
HAVE PERFUMED MY BED WITH MYRRH
PROTOCOL DRAWINGS
SARDON DE LOS FRAILES
AFTERMATH PAINTINGS
I WISH TO COMMUNICATE WITH YOU
A THEORY OF ISLANDS
PARAPENTE (PARAGLIDING)
MATCHING BODY AND BUILDING (DRAWINGS)
CUMULONIMBUS
MATCHING PATTERNS #1
AROMATIC BALLPOINT DRAWINGS
THE FLOATERS
OCCUPYING
CINDERELLA
SYNONYMY