Joao Alves

Multimedia artist. Working primarily with photography and video, my works tend to cross different mediums in the multimedia landscape, from site-specific installations to books, lightboxes or pinhole photography. Something that brings me joy is rediscovering "ancient" or old-fashioned mediums and bring them up-to-date by mixing the subjects of my work with a regular or more updated DSLR camera for example. The question isn't which medium should I use to capture what I want to show to the world; it's more which device allows me to communicate better.


Much of my work also utilizes symbolic language that isn't exactly original. In a "society of spectacle" filled with already-seen images, there isn't any originality: just repetitions and hopefully some of my work is a physical and digital manifestation of this feeling.

Currently finishing my bachelor's degree in Multimedia Art at Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa