Vampires Poetry
2022-23. Set of five poems, digital print on cotton paper, digital print on canvas.

First exhibited within the Portugal Pavilion - Portuguese Official Representation at the 59th La Biennale di Venezia in 2022, Vampire Poetry is a series of five poems originally installed inside modules of an imagined spaceship traveling to a faraway Earth-like planet. Later these modules were re-imagined as large canvases showcasing the spaceship's Gothic-inspired geometrical patterns and displayed alongside the poems. Vampire Poetry combines autobiographical elements with the imaginaries of vampirism, science fiction, and popular references from cinema and literature. In their own terms, the poems speak to feelings of gender dysphoria or euphoria within transgender experiences, while also reflecting on the role of fiction in our lives, bodily integrity and metamorphosis, as well as reproductive desire.