Sofia Victorino's intervention — as part of the project Isto não é um cubo, which brings together artists and audiences from Évora, Lisbon and São Miguel in order to rethink the ways of contemporary artistic creation — questions decolonial approaches and reflects on curating as a collaborative and investigative process that breaks down hierarchies between past and present.

In Portugal and abroad, cultural institutions are experimenting with different models that challenge forms of knowledge and representation. Artists and curators play a central role in creating and disseminating narratives inside and outside those institutions. Based on a critical reassessment of the dominant discourses that have shaped them, Sofia Victorino proposes to reflect on colonial legacies through artistic practices that give space to silenced or marginalised voices. By examining the idea of ‘decentring the museum’, Sofia Victorino will analyse critical models that challenge Eurocentric perspectives and open up aesthetic, political and ethical paths that can respond to the demands of the present.

Having worked at the Whitechapel Gallery in London and the Serralves Foundation in Porto, Sofia Victorino combines her work in curatorship, mediation and public programmes with research into collaborative artistic practices and post- and decolonial thinking.