Artist Name: Isabel Cordovil
Residency Dates: August – September 2026
Born: 1994
Hometown: Lisbon, Portugal
Lives & Works: Lisbon, Portugal
URL: isabelcordovil.com | Instagram: @isabel.cordovil
Gallery: Pedro Cera
Education:
2019 – MFA Work.Master, HEAD Geneva University of Art and Design, Switzerland
2016 – Athens School of Fine Arts, Erasmus Exchange, Athens, Greece
2016 – BFA Fine Arts, the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
2012 – Orientation for art and design, Central Saint Martins, University of Arts London, United Kingdom
Bio/Statement:
The work of Isabel Cordovil mainly investigates the politics of revisiting narratives – be it in myth, folklore, religion, literature, dreams, or around the collective unconscious – and new possible navigations or manipulations of them. Accepting language and symbols as the process of meaning-construction, her research and creative process is always towards broadening their spectrums of agency. Despite its physical absence, the human body often operates as a principal subject, as a mediator between the self and the external world, a measuring device set out to explore themes tied to (gender) identity, the self, sites of political discourse, finitude, and death. Mainly through installation and sculpture, Isabel’s work reflects a poetic language of playful metaphor, a freedom and visual disobedience that search for new ways of belonging/defying and celebrating otherness.
Isabel’s solo exhibitions include: Juliet and Juliet, MACAM, Lisbon, Portugal (2025); The Enigma of Arrival, Pedro Cera, Lisbon, Portugal (2025); A Place Called Under, Cisterna de Elvas, Elvas Museum of Contemporary Art, Elvas, Portugal (2025); Vanity Plagues Me, Almada Municipal Art Gallery, Portugal (2025); Dos cosas tan desiguales, Galeria Pedro Cera, Madrid, Spain (2025). She has participated in many group exhibitions, such as Girar como planetas que rotan en su prado nocturno, Espacios de afectividad entre mujeres, Cultural Center La Nau, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain (2026); O Eu como Múltiplo, MACAM, Lisbon, Portugal (2025); Aura’s Present Decay, Whermule, Art Biesenthal, Germany (2024); A Moeda Viva, Galeria Quadrum Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal (2024).
Support: Isabel Cordovil’s residency is made possible with support from FLAD.
