Unveiling the Gaze Through Poetry

With Raquel Lima

Type: Creative Lab

Unveiling the Gaze Through Poetry takes Art and Resistance as its starting point, inviting participants to slow down, breathe, embody and intuit a poem in an autonomous, singular and creative way. The path will be introduced through an exposition of the facilitator’s creative processes, a poetic-political position on contemporary societies, and the way in which the Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Nova calls forth movements in dialogue with the poetic act. The exercises preceding the writing are based on working through the body, immersing oneself in the work, and summoning the inner world. Poetic writing techniques will be shared, allowing participants to contemplate a cloud of concepts and emotions that may serve as points of departure. The relationship between art and resistance, potential concepts, examples and meanings, will be reflected upon through an open and horizontal conversation between participants and facilitator.

Raquel Lima is a poet, arts educator, performer, essayist, curator and transdisciplinary artist. She holds a degree in Artistic Studies and is a PhD candidate in Postcolonial Studies. Her research focuses on orality, slavery and Afro-diasporic movements, and she co-organised the conference «Afroeuropeans: Black In/Visibilities Contested» (ISCTE, 2019) and co-edited the book Afroeuropeans: Identities, Racism, and Resistances (Routledge, 2025). She has presented her academic work at several international conferences. In 2022, she was invited to the Venice Biennale as a speaker at the event Loophole of Retreat, to the opening session of the World Congress of Women in Mozambique as keynote speaker, and to the event Literature Talk: Poets from Black Europe at BOZAR, Belgium. In 2023, she was invited to the 35th São Paulo Biennial, curated the conference «Reformulating Authority and Authorship in the Arts» in Lisbon, and was named one of the 100 most influential Black personalities in the Lusophone world by Bantumen magazine. In 2024, she was invited as keynote speaker to the symposium Race in Iberia at Ohio State University. She published the poetry books Ingenuidade Inocência Ignorância and ÚLULU, and co-founded União Negra das Artes in Portugal.

Registration:
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programaeducativo@capc.com.pt

Location: Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Nova

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