47th Annual Literary Festival at ODU: October 6-11, 2024

Manuela Mourão: 47th Annual ODU Literary Festival

Document Type

Presentation

Festival Date

10-9-2024

Location

Baron & Ellin Gordon Art Galleries, Old Dominion University

Author/Artist Bio

Manuela Mourão, a mixed media visual artist and professor at ODU, specializes in the literature and culture of the long 19th century. Her art often probes issues explored in her scholarship. Whitewash (focusing on empire and racial identity formation), Remainders (using remaindered copies of her monograph Altered Habits), and Habit (a visual reflection on her academic interests) are examples of how her two practices inform and expand each other. From the Heart, her current project, is at the intersection of personal experience with academic pursuits. In a series of paintings referencing love letters of famous writers contextualized within the trope of Portuguese Love, she offers a visual counterpart to the affirmation of sincere feeling she examines in her latest essay—and which, she argues, has remained part of Portuguese cultural identity for centuries.

Originally from Porto, Portugal, Manuela has lived in the US for three decades. Her artwork has been exhibited internationally at venues like the Vienna Kunsthalle, in Austria, and regionally at various galleries in Virginia, including Target Gallery, Art Space, the Selden Offsite Gallery, the Charles H. Taylor Art Center, Lorrie Saunders Art Gallery, Virginia MOCA, the Sandler Center for the Arts, the Gallery at Pavilion II, the Neil Britton Gallery at Virginia Wesleyan University, the Vestibule at Chrysler Glass Studio, and d’Art Center.

Her art has been featured in book covers, online journals, and is held in several private collections in the US.

Description

Dr. Manuela Mourão's reading took place on Wednesday, October 9, 2024, at 2 p.m. in the Baron & Ellin Gordon Art Galleries.

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