Gisela Casimiro

Writer, Artist, Curator, Activist

Gisela Casimiro (Guinea-Bissau, 1984) is a Portuguese writer, artist, performer, curator, translator and activist. She is the author of the poetry collections Erosão and Giz, and wrote the text and dramaturgy for Casa com Árvores Dentro, a theatre production directed by Cláudia Semedo and first staged at Teatro Municipal Amélia Rey Colaço. Her writing has appeared in several Portuguese and international anthologies, including Reconstituição Portuguesa, edited by Viton Araújo and Diego Tórgo. Her texts have been translated into Turkish, Mandarin Chinese, German, Spanish and English. She has participated in literary festivals in Portugal, Turkey, Macau, Mozambique and Germany, as well as exhibitions at the Municipal Galleries of Porto and Lisbon and the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum. Her work is part of the António Cachola Collection. She was a member of INMUNE, and is a member of UNA – União Negra das Artes.

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