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![Undergoing discomfort: A search for routes to escape the colonial gaze]( "Undergoing discomfort: A search for routes to escape the colonial gaze")
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Rita Gaspar (1993, Lisbon) has worked as a communication designer in artistic and scientific projects, and as an activist in collectives dealing with migration and border policies. Just graduated from the master program Non-Linear Narrative at KABK, she bridges these practices, researching about resistance, collectivity, horizontality and borders. With a feminist approach, she centers the body, vulnerability and care in her research, and creates spaces for intimate sensorial experiences of stories. Through writing and exploring gestures and emotional experiences, she weaves political threads into essayistic, poetic, performative and spatial forms. Co-founder of collectives like Humans Before Borders, Perene and TogetherTogether –research-based artistic collective–, her practice is both an exercise of radical imagination and grounded action, unfolding at the pace of listening, feeling, wandering, and the rhythms of doing together.
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Social media
Member of Artists’ Initiative/Collective/Incubator
TogetherTogether Collective
Platform
KABK
Member of a professional association/artists’ association
Humans Before Borders
Curriculum vitae
Education
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2025 - 2025Disobedient Bodies and Fugitive Aesthetics – Performance, Art, Social Justice and Somatics SNDO
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2025 - 2025Circus training: Aerials Circaso
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2023 - 2025Master Non Linear Narrative Den Haag, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten diploma
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2022 - 2023Corpo de Agora: Movement practice with Carlota Oliveira
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2022 - 2023Ceramic lessons with Hugo Dabin
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2022 - 2022Silkscreen printing Workshop FICA Oficina Criativa
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2019 - 2020Circus training: Aerials CircusLoft
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2018 - 2018Illustration and riso printing course Triciclo Publisher
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2017 - 2017Línguas Maleáveis: moving image workshop with Gary Hill at MAAT Museum
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2015 - 2015Creative writing workshop Museu do Oriente
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2015 - 2015A tipografia faz tudo: Typography, book binding and engraving workshop Oficina do Cego
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2015 - 2015Cyanotype workshop Edge Arts
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2013 - 2014ERASMUS Communication Design Bachelor Politecnico di Milano diploma
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2011 - 2014Communication Design Bachelor Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon diploma
exhibitions
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2025Mourning a revolution MaMA Rotterdam Rotterdam, Netherlands Mourning a revolution gathers a group of emerging artists to reflect on the distant promises of past revolutions, in light of rising authoritarianism. The project emerged from a shared sense of urgency between the curators, following the recent growth of the far-right in Portugal, their home country. A similar situation is taking place all around the world, and as these movements grow, what once were radical promises of liberation are now being toppled by authoritarian ideas. Should one mourn those revolutionary promises? Or, would that be accepting defeat? Can one preserve the seeds of a revolution to use in the future? Or, do we need something new entirely? What is the appropriate response when grieving has become a permanent state—grieving the passivity, complicity, and failure of institutions, governments, or democracy itself? The exhibition guides us through these questions. Coming from places where the echoes of revolution still linger, the artists touch on themes of memory, imagination, and resistance. thisismama.nl/en/events/general/summerswap-mourning-a-revolution/ Group
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2025Graduation Show 2025 KABK Royal Academy Of Arts The Hague, Netherlands The graduation exhibition transformed the Royal Academy of Arts into a space of vibrant meeting ground for creativity and experimentation. Over 220 graduates from around the world presented a rich variety of artistic expressions, including performances, illustrations, graphic design, installations, photography, film, painting, and sound art. Each work reflected the diverse perspectives, cultural backgrounds, and critical questions of a new generation of makers. Visitors were invited to explore, engage, and be inspired by projects that challenged, moved, and expanded the imagination. graduation.kabk.nl/2025/rita-horta-gaspar Group
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2025Humanity in Times of Tension Amare The Hague, Netherlands Humanity in Times of Tension is a bold and hopeful exhibition that explores how people respond to crises with courage, creativity, and solidarity. Through powerful art, stories, and interactive experiences, the exhibition highlights voices of resistance, resilience, and imagination in the face of injustice. As a culmination of the Just Peace Festival 2025, the exhibition will take place before and during the NATO summit. It invites visitors, especially younger generations, to reflect, connect, and consider how we can build a more just and compassionate world, even in challenging times. Curated by NGO Dei, Human Rights in the Picture in collaboration with The Hague Humanity Hub and partner location Amare. Group
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2025De Stadswatch Studio Opening De Stadswatch The Hague, Netherlands De Stadswacht is a growing studio space, workshop and artist community in Binckhorst, The Hague. Since the 1980s, the building has remained a quiet witness to the neighbourhood’s transformation, looking out over demolition sites and new facades. During the months spent maintaining and caring for the space, its new inhabitants have breathed fresh life into its walls. Today, more than 150 local makers, artists, collectives, small businesses and organisations share four of its floors. Together, we weave an intergenerational community that spans a variety of crafts and disciplines: from music, technology, education, dance, repair, photography, design, fine arts, architecture to motor mechanics. De Stadswacht grows through collaboration, mutual support, and shared curiosity. destadswacht.nl/?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMjU2MjgxMDQwNTU4AAGn3cWxIRmKc7uXFe1h7zjwcyBLaIohHmdiHJF-aKWrB58HxwEe5GRYmyuUcxk_aem_zWFlzIbW8uddKS_ki-cJ6Q Group
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2024Archival F(r)ictions – An Invitation to Trace, Question and Shift Unraveling Narratives” National Archive The Hague, Netherlands From March to November 2024 students of the Master Non Linear Narrative collaborated with the Dutch National Archives to explore the hidden stories behind twelve historical maps from their Navigation and Overseas Expansion collection. The outcomes of this research collaboration were display from 9 to 14 November 2024 at the National Archives in The Hague, aiming to rethink the archive as a space of memory and shared stories. www.kabk.nl/en/events/masterstudenten-non-linear-narrative-presenteren-archival-frictions Group
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2024Tears, Rage and Future Visions NGO Dei Art Space The Hague, Netherlands Tears, Rage, Futures visions was an exhibition dedicated to experiment with fluid and innovative forms of collaboration. The exhibition explores how such practices can foster resilience and challenge patriarchal structures within the curatorial space. The show creates space for urgent themes that connect us as a global community, highlighting both political and personal challenges. Through the works presented, visitors are invited to reflect on shared struggles and engage with strategies for resilience and collective political action. By foregrounding collaboration, experimentation, and dialogue, the exhibition positions art not only as a mode of expression but as a tool for imagining and enacting transformative social practices. www.instagram.com/slaap.curation/ Group
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2024Undercover KABK Royal Academy Of Arts The Hague, Netherlands Undercover brings together works that delve into ongoing investigative queries, and navigate public-interest stories surrounding technology, society, and history. Grounded in uncovering hidden narratives that are embedded into our everyday experiences and socio-political realities, each work approaches storytelling as a way of challenging established notions. Utilising research methods with a focus on journalism, artists and designers worked in dialogue with interviewees and institutions for in-depth reporting situated in multiple contemporary contexts. www.kabk.nl/en/events/undercover-a-first-year-students-exhibition-of-non-lineair-narrative Group
Projects
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2025
Practical proposals of what-might-be The Hague, Netherlands graduation.kabk.nl/2025/rita-horta-gaspar Installation, performance, video essay “Practical proposals of what-might-be” responds to a society shaped by modernity and coloniality, where individualism is prioritized. In this context, coming together is a politicized experience for which we propose a language that suspends our belief and involvement in exploitative structures. The project exhibits an ongoing research into collective care through public gatherings and interventions, and unfolds in three interconnected pieces. “Risking entanglement” is a site-specific installation, a playground where we exercise interdependence and rehearse ‘suspension’, not as a way of escaping modernity but as a method of resistance. The performance, “Whispering bodies: scores for the we”, tells a story about the search for collectivity, the joys and frictions of shaping a ‘collective body’, visualizing the intangible relations. “Moving words: a body glossary” presents video essays that explore how meaning is created through the body, becoming an archive of the research process and gestures that hold us together. This project is both a proposal and a question: a space where we suspend productivism, reclaim agency, imagine futures, and ask what if? Project with TogetherTogether Collective.
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2024
Transbordar ~ Movements of Resistance ~ Palestine The Hague, Netherlands Installation and audio piece Transbordar is the portuguese word for overflowing, flooding, trespassing the margins that were supposed to contain something fluid. It is used mainly to talk about water, but also about feelings, those that, at a certain point, don't fit inside anymore. “Transbordar ~ Movements of Resistance ~ Palestine” is a conversation recorded through letters, letters to and from Palestine. At a time when borders are becoming increasingly violent, and not only freedom of movement but also freedom of expression is repressed, we used letters as a medium of transborder care and created an intimate bridge to share grief, love and rage. Where borders become fluid and solidarity can overflow, we shaped a space to explore vulnerability as a form of resistance.
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2024
Undergoing discomfort: A search for routes to escape the colonial gaze National Archives The Hague The Hague, Netherlands Installation and audio piece One of the drawers of the collection of historical maps in the National Archive, contains a map of Suriname from 1780, depicting the route to find the communities of enslaved people who escaped from the colonial plantations. Analyzing this document might feel like a journey back in time, but the colonial gaze that justified this violent persecution is still perpetuated today. How is it still shaping our perception of those who are fleeing violence nowadays? Instead of trying to look for those who are trying to escape from sight, can we hear their stories of resistance? By bringing that drawer up the stairs and out the doors, Undergoing discomfort intends to shed light on these colonial stories and question: which narratives and words need to be left to decay? And where do we position ourselves in this process? It leaves an invitation to move with and through the discomfort of facing the coloniality of the past and the present. An invitation to embody a humbling position, to crouch, to crawl, to lie down. It proposes a change of perspective: going under to escape the usual cartographic look from above, to search for escape routes without wanting to map or control them.
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2024
Uma carta de amor aos nossos corpos baldios Essay film Five friends spend a weekend together in a house in the countryside of Portugal. They discuss the world and hold each other through it, they share stories and feel along. By creating this intimate space where vulnerability can happen, they talk through the loneliness of their relationship with their bodies and the constraining conceptions of womanhood. They cry and they laugh at their crying, but you will not see them: “uma carta de amor aos nossos corpos baldios” [a love letter to our communal bodies] is an embodied metaphor of their gathering, a love letter with five voices, performed by one body, that wanders the line between keeping these spaces intimate and opening them in order to create space for others.
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2024
Farewell: an imagined response to dutch colonizers The Hague Performance Departing from the VOC archives and following the story of the botanist and merchant Georg Eberhard Rumphius, we wrote and performed an imaginary response to the Dutch colonizers. They extracted trees and knowledge from the territory now known as Indonesia, to control lands, species, people, and life itself. We encountered the rituals practiced by the women of this region to transfer knowledge, and inspired by them, we strived to escape the grids of categorization imposed by the colonial gaze. Project with Juliana Acero and Stefano Cattani.
International exchanges/Residencies
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2024Floating University Berlin Berlin, Germany Participation in the “Free Radicals Residency”. floating-berlin.org/programmes/learnscapes/ls-24/free-radicals-2024/
Commissions
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2025The soil, the grief and the living Stroom Den Haag The Hague, Netherlands Performance at Stroom Den Haag, in dinner hosted by the artist Leanne Wijnsma. The research-based artistic collective TogetherTogether, presents a ritualistic performance building on previous research on the colonial practice of extirpating clove trees in Indonesia. Accessed through the GLOBALISE archival tool, the collective searched documents from the Dutch East India Company. Working on the intersection of embodied knowledge, decolonial practice and activism, for this occasion the collective reflects on mourning the loss of biodiversity. www.stroom.nl/en/stroom/agenda-en/leanne-wijnsma-server-tempeh finished
Publications
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2024Robida Magazine no. 10: Correspondences Book Robida magazine Multiple Topolò, Italy robidacollective.com/projects/robida-magazine/robida-10-correspondences Publication of the project “Transbordar ~ Movements of Resistance ~ Palestine” as written format. The tenth issue of Robida magazine, which celebrated its tenth year of existence, is made of correspondences, conversations, interviews and letter exchanges where the magazine becomes the pretext to establish new relationships or deepen existing ones. While writing and other creative activities can often be solitary endeavours, this year, Robida’s core purpose was decidedly tangible and hands-on: to go out there and talk, discuss, meet, write to each other, organise and create — together.
Secondary art-related activities
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2025 - 2025Performer with TogetherTogether Collective for Amanda Piña “To Bloom () Florecimiento” at Stroom The Hague
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2024 - 2025Suspension Moments: workshops and gatherings facilitator with TogetherTogether collective On-going
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2022 - 2023Infographics Workshop facilitator with Science Crunchers
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2021 - 2024Co-founder, activist and designer for Perene – collective aiming to rethink the way we live, consume and relate to our community, organizing political debates in Azambuja, Portugal
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2019 - 2023Communication designer for Science Crunchers
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2019 - 2023Co-founder and communication designer for Absurda design collective
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2018 - 2024Co-founder, activist and designer for Humans Before Borders – project-based and non-hierarchical platform for action against inhumane and illegal treatment of migrants and refugees
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2017 - 2017Volunteer creating and facilitating a workshop called “Photographic Image Making – visual storytelling about Place” for Office of Displaced Designers, in Lesvos, Greece
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2017 - 2017Volunteer communicator, deck hand and photographer for Jugend Rettet in maritime rescue missions on board the ship IUVENTA in the Central Mediterranean
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2014 - 2025Communication design On-going