Biography

Margarida Correia (b. 1972) was born in Lisbon, Portugal. She lives and works in Lisbon. She received an MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York. She has exhibited her work extensively in North America, including at Bruce Silverstein Gallery and the Bronx Museum in New York, Center for Photography at Woodstock, the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, The Print Center in Philadelphia, the Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle, the Vermont Center for Photography (USA), and Gallery 44 in Canada. She has also exhibited in Portugal, The Netherlands and Hungary. Correia was a recipient of grants and awards from the Puffin Foundation in New Jersey, the AIR Gallery in New York, the Joyce Elaine Photography Grant in Texas and fellowships from the Aaron Siskind Foundation in New York (US) and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Luso American Foundation and the Portuguese Center for Photography (Portugal).

The project was inspired by a publication in 1950 written by a female journalist Maria Lamas (1893 - 1983) As Mulheres do meu País or The Women of my Country that portrayed the life of Portuguese women in the 1940s during Oliveira Salazar’s dictatorship.

Portugal overcame the dictatorship with the revolution of 1974 and later joined the European Union in 1986. More recently the country has been struggling with the hardship of economic crises that have led to the vast emigration of a younger generation. This work reflects the changes in the lives of women in Portuguese society since that period, using the book as a visual and conceptual reference.

Macao © Margarida Correia

Tia Mariazinha © Margarida Correia

Maria De Lurdes © Margarida Correia

Ceu © Margarida Correia

Lurdes Costa © Margarida Correia

Petinha © Margarida Correia

Macao © Margarida Correia
Tia Mariazinha © Margarida Correia
Maria De Lurdes © Margarida Correia
Ceu © Margarida Correia
Lurdes Costa © Margarida Correia
Petinha © Margarida Correia

Saudade is a project that was developed around the relationship that some people from my generation (born in 1972), develop with objects of personal use (with no particular monetary value) that they hold in sentimental regard. Objects that meant to be ephemeral and subject to the vicissitudes of time, but somehow lasted until today.

Rosario

Alison

Isabel

Sims

Adrienne

Paula

Ana

Karen

Sonia

Alexis

Janice

Amelia

Alexis and Ari

Rosario
Alison
Isabel
Sims
Adrienne
Paula
Ana
Karen
Sonia
Alexis
Janice
Amelia
Alexis and Ari

“…ABC No Rio began with The Real Estate Show, an illegal art exhibition about land use and gentrification mounted in an abandoned building at 123 Delancey Street in 1979. After the exhibition was shut down by NYPD, the art community rallied in protest. The city was forced to relent, offering a nearby property to the artists—156 Rivington St. Today, No Rio supports activities from art exhibits to punk shows and provides space for other progressive organizations like Food Not Bombs and Time’s Up. A community centre that has maintained its allegiance to both art and activism, No Rio is representative of a New York that is fast disappearing. Soon, the existing structure will be torn down to make way for a new No Rio building…” Erin Sickler