Name: Margot Opitz Vilaça

Position/Professional Category: PhD Candidate (FCT scholarship)

Research project title: Diferentes Tipos de Ar. Sobre as imagens do ar e o ar das imagens

Supervisor: Carla Varela Fernandes (IHA-NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST) Advisor: Gianfranco Ferraro (Centro de Estudos Globais, Universidade Aberta)

Thematic areas: Air; Representation; Iconography; Image Theory

Position within IHA: RG Member [Pre-Modern Visual and Material Cultures]

Contact: margotvilaca@fcsh.unl.pt

ORCiD: 0009-0005-9438-0714

CIÊNCIA ID: 9D14-2087-BFB0

Biography

Degree in drawing and painting from Ar.Co., bachelor’s, and master’s degree in Art History from NOVA FCSH. In 2022, she defended her master’s thesis on “Georges Bataille and the birth of art”. She is mainly interested in the relations between art and religion, mythology and symbolism. Her PhD thesis centres on the theme of air.

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Formada em desenho e pintura pelo Ar.Co., licenciada e mestre em História da Arte pela NOVA FCSH. Defendeu a sua dissertação de Mestrado sobre “Georges Bataille e o nascimento da arte” em 2022. Interessa-se pela relação entre arte e religião, mitologia e simbolismo. O tema da sua tese de Doutoramento é o ar.

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Abbreviations:
RG – Research Group