In collaboration with Ana João Romana.

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SINOPSE
Susana Anágua works with light and water as metaphors in these two art installations for Pombal Palace. The location of the building is done soberly in Rua do Século and extends to an inner garden area reserved for its visitors. In an atempt to unite these two realities, the street related to the city and public life and the garden associated with the private space, these two installations go through the various rooms of the Palace joining the North front with the rear facing south. The sun light that dominates the space and the controversial process of diversion of public waters of the aqueduct of Lisbon made by
the Marquis of Pombal, during the extension works of the palace, serve as a motto for the materialization of these two installations.

Ana João Romana, in collaboration with Susana Anágua, makes a picture/installation of time and space from the book "The Diversion of the Waters". Noting all the hours of daylight, from daybreak until dark, associating them with exposure and identifying distances, directions and geographical locations of the diversion of water held by the Marquis of Pombal between the Mãe d’Água and Pombal Palace, now inhabited by Carpe Diem. Being the Marquis of Pombal the first statesman to use cartography as a tool, Ana João Romana publishes a map that cartographers light and water as related references in the work of Susana Anágua.

BIOGRAPHY
Susana Anágua was born in Lisbon in 1976. Has Master Degree in Digital Arts from the University of the Arts London (Camberwell College of Arts) and a degree in Fine Arts from School of Art & Design of Caldas da Rainha (Portugal), where she also teaches since 2009. Anágua has had numerous individual exhibitions from which we can name Olhar Radar, Rio Janeiro (2012) or "Desnorte/Northless” (2008), projects room of Modern Art Centre of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon. Also, installations such as public intervention in 2010 " Carris Art in Motion "project installation of Glory Lift , Lisbon and the project carried out in the framework of the celebration of the election of the 7 Wonders of Portugal , Batalha Monastery in 2008 . Artistic Das and biennials include residence if , in 2013, Travel Invisible, with the support of DGARTES for the Biennale of Sao Tome and Principe , artistic coordination of international residence OFFLINE in LARGO homes in Lisbon and participation in Transient -Between albums and files - Xerem Networks and Triangle - in 2012 - Largo Residences - Lisbon. Collective exhibition protrude in 2014 , Cartography of Power, AfroBrasil Museum , Oca , Ibirapuera Park , St. Paul 2012 , Linkfest , Ireland, Arround Around, Marseille, in 2005, seven artists tenth month, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation , Lisbon; " E = mc2 " , National Museum of Science and Technology , Coimbra;  "Anteciparte 2005, "Greenhouse Cold, Lisbon; 2004  "City Desk Award", Centro Cultural de Cascais, Cascais; in 2005 "Perpetual Motion, Art for Carlos Paredes", National Cordage in Lisbon, among others. She is an artist represented by Gallery Graphos: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil.

Ana João Romana was born in Lisbon in 1973. Graduated in Painting (Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon), Postgraduate in Museology and Heritage (Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University), Master in Painting (Royal College of Art) and doctoral student in the Artist Book (University of Algarve). Exhibited regularly since 1996 in Portugal (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Belém Cultural Centre, National Cordage, National Society of Fine Arts, Emmerico Nunes Cultural Center, Art Center Manuel de Brito...), UK, Japan, Brazil, United States of America, China, Finland and Ireland. Had a scholarship Erasmus, from the Service of Fine Arts of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Royal College of Art in Artworks Wales and Pollock-Krasner Foundation. She currently has a scholarship from the Foundation for Science and Technology. Artist-in-residence at the North Wales School of Art & Design (2003). Bartolomeu dos Santos assistant between 1998 and 2000. Professor of basic education between 1994 and 2000, the University of Évora between 2003 and 2005, the Institute of Education and Science between 2007 and 2011. Collaborator of Educational Service CAM (Centre Modern Art) since 2000 and professor in ESAD.CR (Art & Design School of Arts, Caldas da Rainha) since 2006.

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