Born in Angola and living in Portugal, Neusa Trovoada has presented her work as a set designer and visual artist at various venues across the country, including Culturgest, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and INSTITUTO. She regularly participates in projects and structures for research and artistic promotion with creators from racialised communities.

At Fábrica da Cerveja, which hosts the group exhibition “Invisible Present”, Neusa Trovoada opens the exhibition “CHORUS 1.8 – latente”. After thinking about the powers of the mouth and the scream, the artist presents us with a set of works that take us inwards, to the latent pulse, to the depths that cross times and places. Giving us a glimpse, or a sense, of the hidden strategies of survival and the movements imprinted in the archaeology of gestures of resistance, she inverts the planes to seek answers: the underground comes to the surface and brings with it clues to a possible, ecologically and socially more responsible, future.

In dialogue with Neusa Trovoada’s exhibition, Angolan director and actress Zia Soares – the first black woman to direct a Portuguese theatre company – presents the performance “Coro dos Assombrados” on the terrace of the Fábrica da Cerveja.