













Someone told me, on one of those dusty nights, amidst the incoming drizzles, the smell of silence encrusted on the walls of the stores, someone told me, I said, that a body is made up of all the bodies that one experiences. Those who you meet, in the mist of the drunken night, those who greet each other for brief minutes just to satisfy the violent core, like a clenched fist pushing the chest from the inside, those who exist beyond the skin that covers them. The bodies, all the bodies, leave their mark, beyond the obvious, on the body that knows them.
2021
Book specifications
92 pages
47 images
20 x 25 cm
offset print
print run: 100 — 10 (hardcover)
isbn: 978-989-33-1719-8
conhecer um corpo is a photography book about the intimacy of bodies, the process of self-knowledge and the learning of the self from the other. The photographic process took place between 2017 and 2019, but only in 2021 evolved into an object with a more refined sense and intention. The construction of this book started by going back to my archive to find an intentional narrative line that permeated the photographs taken during that time. Among more than two thousand photographs, the choice fell to about fifty, which communicate a melancholic idea of the search for my identity through the bodies and places I have experienced.














Someone told me, on one of those dusty nights, amidst the incoming drizzles, the smell of silence encrusted on the walls of the stores, someone told me, I said, that a body is made up of all the bodies that one experiences. Those who you meet, in the mist of the drunken night, those who greet each other for brief minutes just to satisfy the violent core, like a clenched fist pushing the chest from the inside, those who exist beyond the skin that covers them. The bodies, all the bodies, leave their mark, beyond the obvious, on the body that knows them.
conhecer um corpo is a photography book about the intimacy of bodies, the process of self-knowledge and the learning of the self from the other. The photographic process took place between 2017 and 2019, but only in 2021 evolved into an object with a more refined sense and intention. The construction of this book started by going back to my archive to find an intentional narrative line that permeated the photographs taken during that time. Among more than two thousand photographs, the choice fell to about fifty, which communicate a melancholic idea of the search for my identity through the bodies and places I have experienced.
2021
Book specifications
92 pages
47 images
20 x 25 cm
offset print
print run: 100 — 10 (hardcover)
isbn: 978-989-33-1719-8
Texts
— Bodybuilding and the future of gender
room sheet of the Cineclube EA's showing of the film Pumping Iron, 2021
— 'The Kiss': The obscene off the scene
published on the Journal of Technology and Science of the Arts, 2021
Texts
— Bodybuilding and the future of gender
room sheet of the Cineclube EA's showing of the film Pumping Iron, 2021
— 'The Kiss': The obscene off the scene
published on the Journal of Technology and Science of the Arts, 2021
Miguel De (Portugal, 1992) is a transdisciplinary artist working across photography, video, writing, sound and performance. His practice unfolds around narrative as a device for constructing reality, exploring how memory, fiction and image shape contemporary perceptions of the body, identity and experience. He has a master's degree in Photography from Escola das Artes da Universidade Católica Portuguesa (2022) and a degree in Cinema and Audiovisual from Escola Superior Artística do Porto (2013). He lives in Braga.
His work inhabits ambiguous territories between document and staging, archive and imagination, intimacy and mediation. He approaches the image not as proof, but as an unstable surface, continuously reproduced, manipulated and rewritten, where desire, language and technology become tools for speculating on the present. His work moves across hybrid formats including installation, film, publishing and performance, intersecting cinema, photography and sound experimentation.
His film “O Meu Amor do Rancho” premiered in the National Competition at IndieLisboa in 2026. He published a photography book in 2021, “conhecer um corpo”. From 2015 to 2017, he produced electronic music under the name Tundra Fault.
He regularly collaborates with various artists, creating soundtracks and live video for performances, as well as artistic and stage photography, having worked with João Pedro Rodrigues, Maria Trabulo, António da Silva, Coletivo SillySeason, Daniel Seabra, Jo Castro, outro / Sílvio Vieira, Júlio Cerdeira, Dora Vieira, David Machado, Distorted Vision, Rui P. Andrade (Canadian Rifles), and Lola Rossi.

Exhibitions, residencies and press
Solo exhibitions
→ Procuro-te por toda a parte, mas só encontro paisagem. — Lugar.Landescape — Ovar, Portugal, 2025
→ Masc — Livraria aberta — Porto, Portugal, 2022
Group exhibitions
→ Santa Cruz — Shopyard, Braga25 — Braga, Portugal, 2025
→ O Meu Amor do Rancho — Go Gay With Portuguese Folk Music - Encontros da Imagem — Braga, Portugal, 2025
→ Masc — Too Much of a Good Thing - a ilha / XYZ Books — Lisbon, Portugal, 2023
→ Pega de fogo — ACTUM - Palácio do Raio — Braga, Portugal, 2023
→ Masc — Amor em Tempos de Cólera - ACTUM — Braga, Portugal, 2021
→ Masc — Panorama21 - Escola das Artes da Universidade Católica Portuguesa — Porto, Portugal, 2021
→ The myth of Atlas — ACTUM — Braga, Portugal, 2020
Residencies
→ O Espelho da Alma — All Tomorrow's Parties - SillySeason and A Oficina — Guimarães, Portugal, 2025
Texts and interviews
→ O Meu Amor do Rancho — Canal 180, 2025
→ Tap Juice — Tap Juice — Braga, 2025
→ Arde — Canal 180, 2022
→ Arde — Umbigo Magazine, 2022
→ Falar Fazendo: Media Arts — Braga'27 — Braga, Portugal, 2022
→ Vamos Falar? Onde vês arte? — Rádio Universitária do Minho — Braga, Portugal, 2021
→ The Kiss: The obscene off the scene — Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts (Vol. 13 Nr. 2) — Porto, Portugal, 2021
→ Bodybuilding and the future of gender — Cineclube EA — Porto, Portugal, 2021
→ Braga de... — Braga'27 — Braga, Portugal, 2021
All work
| 2026 | |||
| Comission | Live video | Macbeth, by SillySeason | |
| Creation | Film | O Meu Amor do Rancho | |
| 2025 | |||
| Creation | Performance | O Espelho da Alma (work in progress) | |
| Comission | Film | Santa Cruz | |
| Comission | Performance + DJ set | Luscofusco @ PISO | |
| Comission | Live visuals | Darksessions showcase | |
| Programming | Festival | 30 horas 30 anos Grande Prémio de Literatura dst | |
| Creation | Performance | Actos e Omissões (work in progress) | |
| Comission | Workshop | Shopyard: Film Photography Course | |
| Creation | Photography | Procuro-te por toda a parte, mas só encontro paisagem. | |
| 2024 | |||
| Comission | Live visuals | Darksessions & Fuga | |
| Creation | Live radio | Alarido ao vivo | |
| Comission | Music | Pó de Pedra, by Circo Caótico | |
| Comission | Live visuals | Displacing Utopia, w/ Alexandre Centeio (music) | |
| Comission | Music | Hide to Seek, by Júlio Cerdeira | |
| Creation | Podcast / Newsletter | Alarido | |
| 2023 | |||
| Creation | Video | Pega de Fogo | |
| 2022 | |||
| Comission | Video | Ovar Escondido | |
| Comission | Music | Matérias Inúteis, by Banquete | |
| Comission | Video + workshop | Imaginary Cartographies | |
| 2021 | |||
| Creation | Music | PNRM | |
| Comission | Music | Raíz, by Circo Caótico | |
| Creation | Photography | Masc | |
| Comission | Video | Darktraces, by Joana Castro | |
| Creation | Photography book | Conhecer um corpo | |
| 2020 | |||
| Creation | Photography | O mito de Atlas | |
| Creation | Music | Sinfonia do Futuro | |
| Creation | Film | The Kiss | |
| Comission | Music | Por um fio, by Daniel Seabra | |
| Comission | Music | Com(Sequência), by Circo Caótico | |
| Comission | Music | Crisálida, by Daniel Seabra | |
| 2019 | |||
| Comission | Music | [HOSE], by Daniel Seabra | |
| Comission | Video + Music | Circuito | |
| 2018 | |||
| Comission | Music | Ocupa #3 w/ Dora Vieira and David Machado | |
| 2017 | |||
| Creation | Music | Tundra Fault |

Miguel De (Portugal, 1992) is a transdisciplinary artist working across photography, video, writing, sound and performance. His practice unfolds around narrative as a device for constructing reality, exploring how memory, fiction and image shape contemporary perceptions of the body, identity and experience. He has a master's degree in Photography from Escola das Artes da Universidade Católica Portuguesa (2022) and a degree in Cinema and Audiovisual from Escola Superior Artística do Porto (2013). He lives in Braga.
His work inhabits ambiguous territories between document and staging, archive and imagination, intimacy and mediation. He approaches the image not as proof, but as an unstable surface, continuously reproduced, manipulated and rewritten, where desire, language and technology become tools for speculating on the present. His work moves across hybrid formats including installation, film, publishing and performance, intersecting cinema, photography and sound experimentation.
His film “O Meu Amor do Rancho” premiered in the National Competition at IndieLisboa in 2026. He published a photography book in 2021, “conhecer um corpo”. From 2015 to 2017, he produced electronic music under the name Tundra Fault.
He regularly collaborates with various artists, creating soundtracks and live video for performances, as well as artistic and stage photography, having worked with João Pedro Rodrigues, Maria Trabulo, António da Silva, Coletivo SillySeason, Daniel Seabra, Jo Castro, outro / Sílvio Vieira, Júlio Cerdeira, Dora Vieira, David Machado, Distorted Vision, Rui P. Andrade (Canadian Rifles), and Lola Rossi.
Exhibitions, residencies and press
Solo exhibitions
→ Procuro-te por toda a parte, mas só encontro paisagem. — Lugar.Landescape — Ovar, Portugal, 2025
→ Masc — Livraria aberta — Porto, Portugal, 2022
Group exhibitions
→ Santa Cruz — Shopyard, Braga25 — Braga, Portugal, 2025
→ O Meu Amor do Rancho — Go Gay With Portuguese Folk Music - Encontros da Imagem — Braga, Portugal, 2025
→ Masc — Too Much of a Good Thing - a ilha / XYZ Books — Lisbon, Portugal, 2023
→ Pega de fogo — ACTUM - Palácio do Raio — Braga, Portugal, 2023
→ Masc — Amor em Tempos de Cólera - ACTUM — Braga, Portugal, 2021
→ Masc — Panorama21 - Escola das Artes da Universidade Católica Portuguesa — Porto, Portugal, 2021
→ The myth of Atlas — ACTUM — Braga, Portugal, 2020
Residencies
→ O Espelho da Alma — All Tomorrow's Parties - SillySeason and A Oficina — Guimarães, Portugal, 2025
Texts and interviews
→ O Meu Amor do Rancho — Canal 180, 2025
→ Tap Juice — Tap Juice — Braga, 2025
→ Arde — Canal 180, 2022
→ Arde — Umbigo Magazine, 2022
→ Falar Fazendo: Media Arts — Braga'27 — Braga, Portugal, 2022
→ Vamos Falar? Onde vês arte? — Rádio Universitária do Minho — Braga, Portugal, 2021
→ The Kiss: The obscene off the scene — Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts (Vol. 13 Nr. 2) — Porto, Portugal, 2021
→ Bodybuilding and the future of gender — Cineclube EA — Porto, Portugal, 2021
→ Braga de... — Braga'27 — Braga, Portugal, 2021
All work
| 2026 | |||
| Comission | Live video | Macbeth, by SillySeason | |
| Creation | Film | O Meu Amor do Rancho | |
| 2025 | |||
| Creation | Performance | O Espelho da Alma (work in progress) | |
| Comission | Film | Santa Cruz | |
| Comission | Performance + DJ set | Luscofusco @ PISO | |
| Comission | Live visuals | Darksessions showcase | |
| Programming | Festival | 30 horas 30 anos Grande Prémio de Literatura dst | |
| Creation | Performance | Actos e Omissões (work in progress) | |
| Comission | Workshop | Shopyard: Film Photography Course | |
| Creation | Photography | Procuro-te por toda a parte, mas só encontro paisagem. | |
| 2024 | |||
| Comission | Live visuals | Darksessions & Fuga | |
| Creation | Live radio | Alarido ao vivo | |
| Comission | Music | Pó de Pedra, by Circo Caótico | |
| Comission | Live visuals | Displacing Utopia, w/ Alexandre Centeio (music) | |
| Comission | Music | Hide to Seek, by Júlio Cerdeira | |
| Creation | Podcast / Newsletter | Alarido | |
| 2023 | |||
| Creation | Video | Pega de Fogo | |
| 2022 | |||
| Comission | Video | Ovar Escondido | |
| Comission | Music | Matérias Inúteis, by Banquete | |
| Comission | Video + workshop | Imaginary Cartographies | |
| 2021 | |||
| Creation | Music | PNRM | |
| Comission | Music | Raíz, by Circo Caótico | |
| Creation | Photography | Masc | |
| Comission | Video | Darktraces, by Joana Castro | |
| Creation | Photography book | Conhecer um corpo | |
| 2020 | |||
| Creation | Photography | O mito de Atlas | |
| Creation | Music | Sinfonia do Futuro | |
| Creation | Film | The Kiss | |
| Comission | Music | Por um fio, by Daniel Seabra | |
| Comission | Music | Com(Sequência), by Circo Caótico | |
| Comission | Music | Crisálida, by Daniel Seabra | |
| 2019 | |||
| Comission | Music | [HOSE], by Daniel Seabra | |
| Comission | Video + Music | Circuito | |
| 2018 | |||
| Comission | Music | Ocupa #3 w/ Dora Vieira and David Machado | |
| 2017 | |||
| Creation | Music | Tundra Fault |