Rossana Mendes Fonseca is an artist, curator, and researcher. She studied Photography at Spéos International School of Photography (2010) and earned a Master’s degree in Art Studies – Theory and Art Criticism from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto (2011). She completed her PhD in Contemporary Arts at the College of Arts, University of Coimbra (2024) with a thesis titled “Perception, Time, and Memory in the Genesis of Photography” and the photobook (e)vidências. She is an integrated member of the Aesthetics, Politics, and Knowledge research group at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Porto. She lectured at national and international conferences and her work revolves around the image, particularly the technical image — photography, video, and cinema — as a central theme in contemporary discussions on aesthetics, politics, and ontology. She has developed a unique perspective on perception and memory in a world dominated by images and the potency of the false, which allows us access to an alternative experience of time and the discontinuity of reality. Her artistic practice, which began with photography, is deeply cartographic and serial, exploring the medium itself, while branching into other forms of expression. She dwells in the interstitial space between the still image and the moving image, inhabiting the moment of duration between still-life photography and experimental video. She has participated in group exhibitions, held solo exhibitions, co-created audiovisual installations, and presented visual art installations. She has also engaged in artistic and curatorial residencies, including with Balleteatro, the Il Cantiere collective, and Culture Hub Croatia PROSTOR. Since 2013, she has been a resident artist at CRU creative hub, where she became the exhibition program curator in 2017. In collaboration with the Husma collective, she curated four exhibitions at Museu das Marionetas do Porto between August 2014 and January 2015. Since March 2017, she has curated, programmed, and produced over 40 exhibitions at CRU, fostering collaborations with curators and organizations, resulting in co-curations that have brought valueable insights and expanded artist networks. Her exhibition programs at CRU aim to identify and promote emerging artists across various media, including painting, sculpture, photography, video art, and installations using ready-mades or social media. From conceptualization to the setup and promotion of each exhibition, she has supported both emerging and established, national and international artists with innovative proposals. Rossana has edited two editions of Duck Soup magazine and her writings, spanning academic research, fashion journalism, art criticism, and essays on cinema and contemporary dance, have been published in books (Guimarães European Capital of Culture — IN.TRANSIT; Estética(s) e Artes — Edições Afrontamento), magazines (kinematrix, Elle, Vogue, Shifter), and online platforms for institutions such as Balleteatro and Rivoli Teatro Municipal do Porto (Mnemónica, Anarquivo, DDD), among others. From 2016 to 2022, she taught practical and theoretical art disciplines at higher education institutions and art schools. She also collaborated with the e-commerce company Farfetch from 2015 to 2023 in areas such as copywriting, image quality control, styling, and product photography. Driven by intuition as a methodology and a particular approach to anachronism, her work can be seen as an ongoing essay of writing with images.