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Tânia Moreira David | Lisbon, Portugal | www.taniamoreiradavid.com
Visual Artist and Filmmaker

What do you think being creative means?
Being creative means to express one's particular and unique perspective of life and designing your way with invention.
 
How do you include creativity in your life?
By taking time to be attentive to my surroundings, noticing the small gestures and events, and also by being willing to engage in different experiences. I temporarily adopted a baby greenfinch and it is a beautiful experience to see her grow and begin to sing and fly.
 
What are your thoughts on how your life has influenced your creative imagination, and how your creative imagination has influenced your life?
From an early age I was exposed to artistic expression. I had ballet classes for many years, from the age of seven. Contemporary dance was also part of my childhood education, as I frequently watched dance performances with my parents. All those early experiences allowed me to connect to my artistic self and were essential for me when choosing an artistic path.
 
What, if any, exercises do you do to get into a creative mode?
The relationship with nature often inspires me to be creative. Also, doing yoga makes me feel more centered in myself and thus contributes to my creativity.

How important do you think creativity is in life?
Creativity is essential for living a full life.

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About
Tânia Moreira David is a Portuguese visual artist and filmmaker. She studied architecture, documentary filmmaking at London Film Academy (2008) , and holds a master’s degree in film project from Lisbon's Theatre and Film School (2016).

Among her projects, La Petite Maison, an Architectural Seduction won the prize for best film at InShadow’s Festival 2012 (Lisbon) and has participated in film festivals all over the world, from New York to Moscow. She co-created the video installation Phenomena as a result of an arts commission supported by Arts Council England. The video Vórtice was shown at Santa Catarina's Museum of Image and Sound in Florianópolis, Brazil, as part of 'Strangloscope - International Audio, Video/Film and Experimental Performance' (2017). In the same year she also conceived the installation Imaginary Map included in the installation-path 'Cartography in Movement', co-produced by Teatro Maria Matos. Between 2017 and 2022 she created the video installations Inhabitants, Found Movement and Arcturus (the first two were presented in 2021, in the exhibition 'Matter for Future Excavation' at Lisbon's Architecture Triennale), which were part of Joana Braga's performative walks Scores for Walking, Each Step a Constellation and The Steps Around. The video installation Shadows of the Red Days was shown in March 2023 at INSTITUTO, Porto, and in September 2024 at Galeria Diferença, Lisbon. In November 2024 the videophotographic installation The Future of Oblivion was presented at Galeria Imago in Lisbon.