Inês Beleza Barreiros

Michael Ann Holly Fellow

01/27/2025–06/15/2025

Inês Beleza Barreiros is an art historian, cultural critic, and curator. Her work focuses on how art and images become knowledge-producing objects. She is particularly invested in the visual culture, public memory, and afterlives of colonialism in the Portuguese-speaking world. Trained in the United States, Portugal, and France, Beleza Barreiros is currently a researcher at ICNOVA, School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Nova University of Lisbon. She has been working on award-winning documentary films that explore the relation between cinema and other arts, such as painting and landscape. Publications include Sob o Olhar de Deuses sem Vergonha: Cultura Visual e Paisagens Contemporâneas (2009). At the Clark, she will work towards the completion of Thinking Visually: The Afterlives of the Plantation. Combining decolonial visual studies and ecocritical art history, this practiced-based project aims to re-historicize the plantation as an aesthetic regime of extraction that endures, and visualize what has resisted this regime, while expanding the analysis of images of the plantation and their role within art history.