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6.30 pm

Artists in conversation:

Fabrice Samyn & Ana Telles

with Joana P.R.Neves

7 pm

Birds in Music from the Baroque to Contemporary Times

Piano Recital and Comments by Ana Telles

• Jean-Philippe Rameau, 1683–1764

Le Rappel des Oiseaux

• Robert Schumann, 1810–1856

Vogel als Prophet (Waldszenen)

• Ferenc Liszt, 1811–1886

Légende No. 1: Saint François d’Assise prêchant aux oiseaux

• Maurice Ravel, 1875–1937

Oiseaux tristes, from Miroirs

• Olivier Messiaen, 1908–1992

L’alouette lulu, from Catalogue d’oiseaux

BIOS

Ana Telles studied in Lisbon (Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa), New York (Manhattan School of Music and New York University) and Paris, with Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen, Sara Buechner and Nina Svetlanova, among others. She received his doctorate from the University of Paris IV – Sorbonne (France).She maintains an intense artistic activity as a pianist, having played in Portugal, Germany, the United Kingdom, Denmark, France, Italy, Ireland, Poland, Croatia, Cuba, Taiwan, South Korea, Brazil, the USA and Canada.She has been a soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, the Gulbenkian, Lisbon Metropolitan, Filarmonia das Beiras, Sinfonietta de Ponta Delgada, Clássica da Madeira, Tutti de Levallois, Orchestre de Flûtes Français, Conservatory of Dijon (France), Nuova Amadeus (Rome, Italy) and the National Republican Guard Symphonic Band, among others. Her discography includes more than twenty titles.An integrated researcher at CESEM, she is the author of a significant number of book chapters, articles in indexed journals and musical editions.Ana Telles has received scholarships from the Foundation for Science and Technology and the Fulbright Programme. A lecturer at the University of Évora since 2009, she was Director of the School of Arts there between 2017 and 2024. She is a member of the Board of Representatives and the Executive Group of ELIA – European League of Institutes of the Arts. She is currently Full Professor and Vice-Rector for Culture and Community at the University of Évora.

Fabrice Samyn, born in 1981 in Belgium and currently based in Brussels, is an artist known for his diverse body of work, which includes paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, writings, and performances.His art explores significant themes such as time, societal representation, and the notion of overcoming opposites, drawing from a variety of pictorial, conceptual, and spiritual traditions across Western and Eastern cultures. This exploration is aimed at challenging our perceptions of visibility and identity, often involving collaborative and participatory elements where he engages with people from distinct backgrounds, including those affected by war, intersex conditions, blindness, or Alzheimer’s disease.Samyn’s artistic approach is complex and multi-layered, characterized by a poetic force that prompts viewers to rethink their relationship with time, the sacred, and language, offering a deeply personal sensory and spiritual journey. His works, known for their poetic resonance and ability to provoke thought through metaphor and contrast, have gained international recognition.They are featured in prestigious collections and exhibitions worldwide, including in France, the United States, Turkey, and Belgium, showcasing his contribution to contemporary art and his ongoing inquiry into our sensory and spiritual engagement with the world.

Joana P. R. Neves is a London-based writer and independent curator. She is International Artistic Director of Drawing Now Art Fair, Paris, and is currently doing research in Art History at Kingston University. She has worked as a director in prominent commercial galleries (Galerie Chantal Crousel (2003-05), schleicher+lange (2007-09) in Paris and Marlborough Contemporary (2012-13) in London. She has curated several group shows in the Parisian area, amongst which Morel’s Island at CPIF and, more recently The Lynx Knows no Boundaries at the Ricard Foundation in 2015. She also organised solo shows for artists such as Gyan Panchal (2006), Evariste Richer (2007) Reto Pulfer (co-curated with Roven Platform) and Catarina Dias (both in 2015). She is co-founder of the curatorial group Roven Platform with Johana Carrier, Marine Pagès and Diogo Pimentão for which she has co-curated thematic and choreographed soirées and group exhibitions around the medium of drawing. She regularly writes articles for Roven magazine and has written for magazines (Frieze, 02, Le Quotidien de l’Art…) and group or monographic catalogues. Her PhD research focuses on drawing, its machines and its language: “A dialogic study of Etienne-Jules Marey’s graphic and photographic images in relation to contemporary uses of the line and the trace in abstract and conceptual art.

Eva Velázquez, collaborates for several years with the Bellerose and Zadig et Voltaire brands. Eva created her eponymous brand in 2014, distinguishing itself from the classic fashion landscape by reinterpreting old peasant and worker workwear. Initially, she drew her inspiration from the wardrobe of French manual workers, before extrapolating the “practical and sustainable” clothing traditions of the rest of Europe. His curiosity for old clothes found at flea markets goes back as far as his memory. Sometimes disappointed by what she found in ready-to-wear, demotivated by the quality of production in large quantities, she rediscovered the identity and usefulness of old pieces. Modernized them, adapted them, but not subverted them. For her, it makes no sense to “create for the sake of creating”, to add complicated details to impose a signature. When she launched her fashion house, she already had 2,000 old pieces in stock, including accessories, jewelry, hats, vintage fabrics, small wooden buttons. If, initially, the idea was to rehabilitate these period clothes, she quickly wanted to reproduce them, remodeled to meet contemporary needs.