Matilde Campilho

Matilde Campilho (c) privat

Matilde Campilho, born in Lisbon, Portugal, is best known for her video poems in the Internet. News images, landscape pictures, sounds and music come together in her text-based video art. From 2010 to 2013 she lived Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she returns several times a year from her present home back in Lisbon. Her poems have been published in many Brazilian magazines and journals including Folha de São Paulo, O Globo, Suplemento Pernambuco and Modo de Usar & Co., as well as in New Observations (USA) and Público (Portugal). Campilho has already performed at such poetry festivals as Zeitkunst – International Festival for Contemporary Music and Literature (Berlin/Rio de Janeiro 2013) and Artes Vertentes Festival (Tiradentes, Brazil 2014). Jóquei is her first book, published in Portugal in April 2014.

Publication: Jóquei (Tinta da China, 2014)