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Manuela Marques (Tondela, Portugal), lives in Paris.   There is a distinct perceptive individuality in relation to what is photographed in the works of Manuela Marques. There is a sensation of a voluntary isolation in the choice of images that distinguishes the work and gives it a specific approach, extracting the maximum expression from a simple gesture. As such, the intimate nature of the images enters in full consonance, from capture to reception, while not avoiding the intrinsic tensions demonstrated to be an object of encouragement. What is more important than the material itself is examining how things and bodies of energy thrive on emotions and feelings and how they are dependent on them. The continuous exploitation of conciliatory elements as the permanence of a surrounding silence and the question of the light almost always applied in one register, one moment shadow the next naked brilliance, have also been an important mark that has distinguished her work.     The artist first showed her work in Portugal in the 2002 Encontros da Imagem in Braga curated by Rui Prata. In 2005, she took part in Lisbon’s Photo biennial-LisboaPhoto in Empirismos, curated by Horácio Fernandez and Sérgio Mah shown at the Palácio de Ajuda. The exhibition then travelled to Brazil to the Museu da Imagem e do Som in São Paulo and to the Espaço Cultural Contemporâneo in Brasilia. In the 2008, Still Nox, Caroline Pagès gallery, Lisbon. Lá Fora, Edificio Arq. Fernando Tavora, Viana do Castelo, Portugal. Elastic Gallery, Malmö, Sweden. Since the early 1990s, Marques has shown her work extensively in French institutions such as the Centre National de la Photographie, Centre Photographique d’Ile-de-France, Malraux Museum, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain d’Auvergne as well as at the Agnès B Gallery and the Camões Institute. Internationally, Marques has also exhibited collectively in New York city (Schroeder Romero Gallery) and in Canada at the Canadian Photography Museum in Ottawa among other institutions (St. Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax and Uquam Gallery, Montreal).  

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