Odete works between performance, text, visual arts and music. Her work is obsessed with historiographical writing, using erotics and paranoia as two somatic ways of relating to the archival materials. She writes through her body, speculating biographies of historical characters through epidermic pleasures: fashion, personality, presence, fragrance, grace, sensibility. She claims to be a bastard daughter of Lucifer, descending from the medieval practice of satanic pacts to alter one’s gendered body. Lately she has been researching and working around building connection points between “effeminate” histories, from the baroque Castrati to the 19th century dandies.

CV available on request.

odettethewitch[at]gmail.com

SELECTED PRESS

Contemporânea (Exhibition review on 'Artifício' – Portuguese) Contemporânea (Feature) Umbigo (Interview – Portuguese) Umbigo (Article on 'Fogo Posto' – Portuguese) MAAT (Interview) MAAT (Reading list) Hyponik (Interview) Rimas e Batidas (Interview - Portuguese) AQNB FACT Resident Advisor Público (Article – Portuguese)

EUNUCHIAN TALES CICADA / CILADA ARTIFÍCIO FOGO POSTO ATLÂNTIDA CASTRO MARIM, CIRCA 1600 TRILOGIA DA LUA-FOICE THE SCYTHE IS A CRESCENT MOON THE ELDER FEMME AND OTHER STONE WRITINGS LYSIS ON REVELATIONS AND MUDDY BECOMINGS PORTAL MTF PRIESTESS CUTTING THE BONE TO REVEAL IT'S LIE EXCUSE ME MISS THEIR HISTORY WAS ALWAYS A MATTER OF TECHNIQUE ANITA ESCORRE BRANCO DRLNG V, OU FINALMENTE A CASA AMARELA OP. 20 ATO I IV SOUND WORKS

Ghosts are haunting works that keep appearing, ideas that are experimented through small works, impulses, poetry readings, live concerts, SPIRITS that continuously cross all other works and areas of my life. Images, drawings, still images, books and other projects.