Ana Cristina Pereira

Ana Cristina Pereira (Kitty Furtado) is a cultural critic committed to blurring the boundaries between academia and the public sphere. She has curated (post)colonial film exhibitions and promoted public discussions on Memory, Racism and Reparations, being the creator of the Reparations Art-Lab (mala voadora, Porto, 2023).

Currently, she is a researcher at CECS-UMinho developing her project, The Black Gaze (2023.08077.CEECIND), and a visiting professor at FBAUP-UPorto. As part of the curatorial team for Portugal’s representation at the 2024 Venice Biennale, she is the Biomes program curator. Pereira is an active member of COST Action 19129 – Decolonising Development (2020-24) and also of Sopcom’s Visual Culture Working Group – which she coordinated from 2019 to 2024 – serving in this role as deputy editor of VISTA: Journal of Visual Culture. Among other texts and special issue publications, she co-authored the book “Abrir os Gomos do Tempo: conversas sobre cinema em Moçambique” (2022).