Isadora Neves Marques is a film director, visual artist, and writer. Her recent films include “My Senses Are All I Have to Offer” (2024; world premiere at La Semaine de la Critique, Cannes Festival), “Becoming Male in the Middle Ages” (2022; Ammodo Tiger Short Award at its world premiere in IFFR – International Film Festival Rotterdam), and “The Bite” (2019; world premiere Toronto International Film Festival – Wavelengths). She was the Portuguese Official Representation – Portugal Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia in 2022 and was awarded a Pinchuk Future Generation Art Special Prize in 2022 and the Present Future Art Prize in 2018 for her art career. Her films have been awarded in numerous film festivals and her work has been exhibited or screened in art institutions like Castello di Rivoli (Turin), High Line (New York), Pérez Art Museum of Miami (Miami), CA2M and Museum Reina Sofia (Madrid), CaixaForum (Barcelona), Tate Modern and Gasworks (London), HOME (Manchester), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Times Museum (Guangzhou), and Inside Out Art Museum (Beijing). With Catarina de Sousa, she co-founded the film producer Foi Bonita a Festa in 2021. As a writer, with Alice dos Reis she co-founded the poetry press Pântano Books in 2020, and has published articles in e-flux journal and publications by Sternberg Press, MIT Press, and Verso, among others.
Isadora is a mentor to Mateo Vega for Vrijplaats Residency Hybrid – fiction/non-fiction.