Mafalda Duarte Barrela

Mafalda Duarte Barrela is obsessed with abjection, which is to be expected when some of one’s literary and artistic references are Georges Bataille, Carolee Schneemann, Andres Serrano, and Divine. As a curator who regards her practice as knowledge-productive, she compulsively researches the topic, only to often achieve a non-conclusion and generate further questions. Duarte enjoys reading and writing, which is a crucial part of her work, and adores Julia Kristeva, Judith Butler, and Michel Foucault. Nonetheless, she has an unshakable habit of “talking managerial” due to her years spent studying Management, a hasty decision of a once-upon-a-time 18-year-old. Duarte also identifies as a feminist queer curator and hopes to expand the representation of the people who team up with her. Moreover, apart from exhibition-making, she aims to explore alternative curatorial approaches and experiment with transdisciplinary methods and backgrounds.