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If I Had No Bones, I’d Want to Live in Your Body
José Bértolo
OPEN CLASSES OF CONTEMPORARY ARTISTIC PRACTICES_2025_26
NOVEMBER 5TH OF 2025, 5.30PM
ROOM 34 OF EP1 – ESAD.CR
Drawing on the relation between artistic practice and academic research that underpins his life and work, José Bértolo will present a selection of photographic series. The session will highlight his photographic diaries, works produced in Japan—with particular emphasis on Moraesu St., published in book form in 2024 by Documenta—and examples of his commercial photography. The diaristic photo-film 365 (2025) will also be screened.
José Bértolo is Assistant Professor and Researcher at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, NOVA University Lisbon. His essayistic work has focused mainly on questions of representation and materiality in photography and cinema, with special attention to Portuguese and Japanese cases. He is the author and editor of several essay volumes, including Espectros do Cinema: João Pedro Rodrigues e Manoel de Oliveira (2020) and Ichi-go Ichi-e: Fotógrafos Portugueses no Japão (2025, with Pedro Alfacinha). As a photographer, he is the author of the photobook Moraesu St. (Documenta, 2024).