Ana Guedes is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works between the Netherlands and Portugal. In her artistic practice, Guedes combines different media such as sound, video, installation and performance. Inspired by the interplay between personal and political history that her family archive reflects. Guedes' work explores how sound and music can convey the complex political and social constructs embedded in this archival material.
She was artist in residence at the Jan van Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht and completed an MA Artistic Research at the Royal Conservatoire and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. Her research focuses on a collection of objects from a fragmented family history and their political connections with narratives from the European colonial and postcolonial past.
Guedes was nominated for the Hartwig Foundation Production|Collection Fund, Amsterdam (2021), participated in the XVIII Bienal de Cuenca, with the Piedra de Sal prize, Ecuador (2018) and in the New Artists Award 2017, EDP Foundation – MAAT Museum in Lisbon, Portugal (2017). Her works, performances and installations have been shown at Botschaft Berlin-Camões Berlin|MAAT Museum curatorship, Germany (2019), Frecuencia Singular Plural, Centro-Centro Madrid, Spain (2019), NEXT Arts Festival in Kortrijk, Belgium (2019) , Sonic Dawn – Homo Novus Festival in Riga, Latvia (2019) and November Music Festival in 's Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands (2019).
