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
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)
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.