This is an ongoing series of mix-media artworks — photography, drawing, embroidery, artist book, performance and video — that speculates about identities of women and stereotypes. Femanoid is a nonsense concept to think about symbolic meaning-making processes in techno societies. There are currently seventeen Femanoids:
Activist
Brave
Careta
CEO (Chief Executive Officer)
Commencement
Cruella
Cyborg
Delirious
In love
Kills-chicken
Hoop Earrings
Matriarch
Mixed-feelings
Needy
Our Lady
Passport-style
Pumped

Femanoids Warming Up (video)
2025

Experimental AI imagery of the
Femanoids gestural vocabulary. In this soundless animation, one gets
to know some of the mannerisms
of twelve Femanoids.

Presented at the exhibition
Dolor Societates / Parcerias Inteligentes: AI artworks under
the guidance of Leonel Moura
at IADE – UE, Lisbon,
Portugal, February 2025

video 53s

Zine
2025
Artist Book . Edition 1
18 linoleum prints (monotypes) on 120 gm acid free paper, 165cm x 21,5cm

Embroidered Book
2024
Artist book. Edition 1
12 pages in linen, Anchor thread, rope and stamp, 23cm x 26cm x 1,5cm

Monotypes
2023-2024
12 linoleum prints on 180 gm acid free paper and stamp, 20cm x 24cm

View of the embroidered book and the monotypes displayed at the exhibition Narratives of the Self at the Library of Art of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal October 2024-2025.

Who are the Femanoids?
2023
Performance at the Parade of the 49^th Anniversary of the 25 of April 1974, in Lisbon, Portugal
Photos by Aida Castro

O Tripeiro Cover Magazine
2022
Paper 23cm x 33cm

I designed and produced a trophy for the Oceans category in the Wiki Loves Earth 2022 photography contest, organized by Wikimedia Portugal (WMPT). The trophy is made of a medallion of recycled plastic (nylon) part of abandoned fishing nets taken from the Portuguese coast. The center of the medallion is filled with a high relief  shape of a coral also made of recycled plastic. The stand is made of walnut wood. The making of this trophy was part of a partnership between WMPT, fablab_lisboa, and Zero p.

Under the umbrella of the concept of Daydreaming in Public I have created participatory art & design objects that mostly stage sleep and rest in public. They are praising public space as a site for Daydreaming Together and communicate world views, in ways that amplify our understanding of the waken life. Part of my studies at the Visual Arts Program (VAP), current Art, Culture and Technology Program (ACT), at the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT, USA.

In certain social classes in the West the debutant ball is a traditional rite of passage for teen girls. It’s a party that marks the start of adult life. Girls are left to deal with a succession of events that will change their lives in unexpected ways.


Series of 18 mix media collages on 200gm acid free paper 50cm x 70cm

Sara Catarina dancing with her father José Pedro

Clara Eva dancing with her cousin Frederico Alexandre

Sisters Joana, Sofia and Inês dancing

Photomaton – Portraits of João dos Santos
w/ Tiago Pereira, 2010
Video, color, sound, 58′
Rádio Televisão Portuguesa & Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian ©RTP2

Video-documentary about the Portuguese psychiatrist João dos Santos (1913-1987). The film breaks down key concepts on child development, a constant interest of João dos Santos. Inspired by the radio programs authored by João Sousa Monteiro and João dos Santos and broadcasted by Rádio Comercial in the 1980s.

Shipwreck
w/José Carlos Teixeira, 2004
Site-specific video installation at Sala do Veado, National Museum of Natural History and Science, Lisbon, Portugal