Biography

Lorena Ramos is a PhD student at the Faculty of Fine Arts (ULisboa). Her academic and artistic research has always been focused on the deviant – her graduation project was a practical investigation about monsters, and her master’s degree was focused on the representation of the female in art, pointing out the default association between female and monstrous.

Nowadays, she researches the history of witches in Portugal and Brazil. Throughout these investigations, she has often involved technology and the internet in her artistic production, at times proposing the use of social media as a support and other times creating digital illustration and animation in video and GIF formats.