RODRIGUES Daniela

Daniela Rodrigues (Lisbon, 1984) holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology - Politics and Images of Culture and Museology, a Master's degree in Migrations, Interethnicity, and Transnationalism, and has parallel training in drawing and ethnographic film. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in visual anthropology at IDEAS (AMU/ANFAA) and is conducting research on "Lines and Layers for Sintropic Storytelling: An Ethnography of the Soil". Exploring ecological and social relationships between humans and more-than-humans, her work has interconnected artistic and academic practices in multimodal and collaborative formats. Between 2022 and 2023, she wrote essays on family albums for the vernacular photography website Foto-Síntese, supported by ICNOVA - Institute of Communication, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. With the support of Direcção-Geral das Artes and Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, she co-conceived the multidisciplinary speculative ecology project "The Ponds" (2022). As part of her doctoral research, she, along with Ana Gandum, curated the exhibition "coisas de lá / aqui já está sumindo eu" (Rio de Janeiro 2016), which was subsequently installed at Arquivo 237 (Lisbon 2017) and Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa (2019). In January 2020, the resulting book-object from this exhibition was awarded by the Portuguese Association of Anthropology in the category of best audiovisual essay in anthropology. Daniela is a member of NAVA - Visual Anthropology and Art Unit (CRIA, Portugal) and GRUA - Recognition Group of Artistic/Audiovisual Universes (Brazil). She has conducted research in the areas of Material Culture, Contemporary Migrations, Vernacular Photography, and Ethnographic Drawing. Regarding the latter theme, she has been teaching theoretical and practical classes and workshops since 2015, both within and outside academic contexts, in Portugal, Slovenia, and Brazil.