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 multidisciplinary artist, who works with photography, writing, performance, music and video. 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.
He published a photography artist book in 2021, “conhecer um corpo”. He has already exhibited his photographic and videographic work in Lisbon, Porto and Braga. In 2022 he was featured on the list of Best Portfolios, in an international portfolio reading promoted by the IMAGO Lisboa Photo Festival. He regularly collaborates with the Braga Media Arts and Braga’27 projects, promoted by the Municipality of Braga.
In addition to visual work, he is part of Circo Caótico with Daniel Seabra and Mafalda Gonçalves, where he is the author of the music and sound design for the collective's performances. He collaborates with BANQUETE – Association for Research and Creation in Performing Arts, also with the creation of music and soundscapes for performance. From 2015 to 2017 he produced electronic music as Tundra Fault. He also DJs as Miguel De Jay.
He collaborates with artists from various fields, such as João Pedro Rodrigues, Maria Trabulo, Antonio da Silva, Daniel Seabra, Joana Castro, Júlio Cerdeira, Dora Vieira, David Machado, Distorted Vision, Rui P. Andrade (Canadian Rifles) and Lola Rossi.
Exhibitions 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
→ 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
Texts and interviews
→ Tap Juice — Tap Juice — Braga, 2025
→ 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
2025 | Comission | Workshop | Shopyard: Film Photography Course | see more → |
Creation | Performance | Actos e Omissões | see more → | |
Creation | Photography | Procuro-te por toda a parte, mas só encontro paisagem. | see more → | |
2024 | Comission | Live visuals | Darksessions w/ Fuga | see more → |
Creation | Live radio | Alarido ao vivo | see more → | |
Comission | Music | Pó de Pedra, by Circo Caótico | see more → | |
Comission | Music | Hide to Seek, by Júlio Cerdeira | see more → | |
Creation | Podcast / Newsletter | Alarido | see more → | |
2023 | Creation | Video | Pega de Fogo | see more → |
2022 | Comission | Video | Ovar Escondido | see more → |
Comission | Music | Matérias Inúteis, by Banquete | see more → | |
Comission | Video + workshop | Imaginary Cartographies | see more → | |
2021 | Creation | Music | PNRM | see more → |
Comission | Music | Raíz, by Circo Caótico | see more → | |
Creation | Photography | Masc | see more → | |
Comission | Video | Darktraces, by Joana Castro | see more → | |
Creation | Photography book | Conhecer um corpo | see more → | |
2020 | Creation | Photography | O mito de Atlas | see more → |
Creation | Music | Sinfonia do Futuro | see more → | |
Creation | Film | The Kiss | see more → | |
Comission | Music | Por um fio, by Daniel Seabra | see more → | |
Comission | Music | Com(Sequência), by Circo Caótico | see more → | |
Comission | Music | Crisálida, by Daniel Seabra | see more → | |
2019 | Comission | Music | [HOSE], by Daniel Seabra | see more → |
Comission | Video + Music | Circuito | see more → | |
2018 | Comission | Music | Ocupa #3 w/ Dora Vieira and David Machado | see more → |
2017 | Creation | Music | Tundra Fault | see more → |
Miguel De (Portugal, 1992) is a multidisciplinary artist, who works with photography, writing, performance, music and video. 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.
He published a photography artist book in 2021, “conhecer um corpo”. He has already exhibited his photographic and videographic work in Lisbon, Porto and Braga. In 2022 he was featured on the list of Best Portfolios, in an international portfolio reading promoted by the IMAGO Lisboa Photo Festival. He regularly collaborates with the Braga Media Arts and Braga’27 projects, promoted by the Municipality of Braga.
In addition to visual work, he is part of Circo Caótico with Daniel Seabra and Mafalda Gonçalves, where he is the author of the music and sound design for the collective's performances. He collaborates with BANQUETE – Association for Research and Creation in Performing Arts, also with the creation of music and soundscapes for performance. From 2015 to 2017 he produced electronic music as Tundra Fault. He also DJs as Miguel De Jay.
He collaborates with artists from various fields, such as João Pedro Rodrigues, Maria Trabulo, Antonio da Silva, Daniel Seabra, Joana Castro, Júlio Cerdeira, Dora Vieira, David Machado, Distorted Vision, Rui P. Andrade (Canadian Rifles) and Lola Rossi.
Exhibitions 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
→ 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
Texts and interviews
→ Tap Juice — Tap Juice — Braga, 2025
→ 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
2025 | Shopyard: Film Photography Course | → |
Actos e Omissões | → | |
Procuro-te por toda a parte, mas só encontro paisagem. | → | |
2024 | Darksessions w/ Fuga | → |
Alarido ao vivo | → | |
Pó de Pedra, by Circo Caótico | → | |
Hide to Seek, by Júlio Cerdeira | → | |
Alarido | → | |
2023 | Pega de Fogo | → |
2022 | Ovar Escondido | → |
Matérias Inúteis, by Banquete | → | |
Imaginary Cartographies | → | |
2021 | PNRM | → |
Raíz, by Circo Caótico | → | |
Masc | → | |
Darktraces, by Joana Castro | → | |
Conhecer um corpo | → | |
2020 | O mito de Atlas | → |
Sinfonia do Futuro | → | |
The Kiss | → | |
Por um fio, by Daniel Seabra | → | |
Com(Sequência), by Circo Caótico | → | |
Crisálida, by Daniel Seabra | → | |
2019 | [HOSE], by Daniel Seabra | → |
Circuito | → | |
2018 | Ocupa #3 w/ Dora Vieira and David Machado | → |
2017 | Tundra Fault | → |