N. Brandão (Vila Real, 1999) is a Portuguese visual artist and filmmaker that lives and works in Porto. He holds a degree in Fine Arts – Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (2017-2021) and is currently one of the resident artists at the studio of the Cultural Association – Ars Longa Vita Brevis (AL859), where he continues to develop his artistic practice and research. Among the various exhibitions he has participated in, his first solo exhibition, “Circusiana: Act I”, held in 2023 at the gallery of AL859, stands out. Designed to invite the viewer to immerse themselves in the narrative of each image, the exhibition sought to stimulate a cinematic and theatrical observation of painting—where it became necessary to “listen” to the images in order to truly observe them. Driven by his interest in exploring the dialogues between pictorial and moving images, he enrolled in the Master’s in Cinema at the School of Arts of the Portuguese Catholic University of Porto in 2022, where he had the opportunity to develop several film projects, including his first short film, “A Burden’s Tale”. Wandering between Painting and Cinema, his artistic practice reveals a particular curiosity about the uncanny and absurd nature of the human condition, creating visual narratives that, through metaphors and allegories, explore different ways of relating to contemporary existence.
