Cláudio Garrudo (Lisboa, 1976)
Photographer, editor and cultural producer, with exhibitions in Portugal, Spain, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania.
Co-founder of Mapa das Artes (a map of contemporary art in Lisbon), PIPA – Programa da Imagem e da Palavra da Azinhaga, and Bairro das Artes – the cultural hub of the seventh hill (Lisbon’s contemporary art district). Director of Isto não é um cachimbo. Associação (contemporary art association).
Represented by Salgadeiras Arte Contemporânea (Portugal) and guest artist at the H’art Gallery (Romania) and the Caicoya Gallery (Spain).
Director of the ‘Série Ph.’ (photography books published by Imprensa Nacional).
Previously: lecturer at the IPCI on the Master’s in Artistic Photography. Ambassador for the Pampero Foundation in Portugal and, between 1999 and 2009, producer at Studio 004 and for the magazine *Egoísta*.
In recent years, I have developed my work in the field of visual arts that use photography as a technical medium and a means of creating artworks. However, I believe that the intersection of disciplines enriches artistic production. It is this blend and the influence of literature, cinema, painting, theatre, dance, and even science, engineering, psychology and other fields that take us beyond our comfort zone and allow us to create and evolve. In this sense, a defining feature of my work has been the influence of painting, which often imposes itself like a diaphanous veil between myself and what I photograph, creating further layers of interpretation within the image itself and leaving it to the viewer to continue the narrative construction or to create a narrative for the work.
