About the Artist
Soraia Oliveira
I'm Soraia, a multidisciplinary artist working with photography, drawing, self-portraiture and experimental processes.
My work begins with curiosity and a need to understand our inner selves, the body, and the spaces I move through, exploring identity, presence, and transformation.
My work begins with curiosity and a need to understand our inner selves, the body, and the spaces I move through, exploring identity, presence, and transformation.
Soraia Oliveira graduated in Fine Arts from the School of Arts and Design in Caldas da Rainha, with further artistic development through international programs at the Free University of Bolzano and the Accademia di Belle Arti in L'Aquila, Italy.
Her practice combines photography, self-portraiture, performance, and drawing, using experimentation and the body as a territory of identity, intimacy, and transformation.
Her work emerges from personal experience and observation of everyday life. She creates images functioning as fragments of visual autobiography, using the body as both subject and tool.
Gesture and presence become ways of testing limits, inhabiting spaces, and allowing meaning to remain open and in transformation.
Education
School of Arts and Design, Caldas da Rainha
Fine Arts degree
Free University of Bolzano
Erasmus program
Accademia di Belle Arti, L'Aquila
Erasmus program
Driven by Curiosity
I Am
How did it all started?
It began with curiosity, but became more serious in 2019, when I started experimenting with fine arts and later with photography.
What began as an intuitive practice quickly turned into a need to tell stories. Photography became a way to explore places, perform within them, and use the body as a tool for observation and presence.
Through self-portraiture and experimentation, this research expanded into performance, drawing, and material processes, shaping a practice where intuition becomes method and the body remains central.
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