(Lisbon, 1975)
Graduate in Fine Arts from the University of Lisbon and Master from the University of Oxford in Art History and Visual Culture. He has explored the interaction between art and biology, working in laboratories to demonstrate the possibility of using new biological technologies, DNA, proteins and living organisms as means of artistic creation. He has disseminated his work internationally in exhibitions, articles and conferences.
In 1999, De Menezes created his first work of biological art (Nature?) by modifying the drawings of the wings of live butterflies. Since then, he has used several biological techniques including functional MRI of the brain to create portraits where the mind can be visualized (Functional Portraits, 2002); fluorescent DNA probes to create microsculptures within the nuclei of human cells (nucleArt, 2002); sculptures made of proteins (Proteico Portrait, 2002-2007), DNA (Innercloud, 2003; The Family, 2004) or incorporating living neurons (Tree of Knowledge, 2005) or bacteria (Decon, 2007).
Participate in Medilab Madrid with Functional portraits. Patricia playing piano (2002), a video projection on canvas and sound, an exhibition of the intangible based on the visualization of brain activity by magnetic resonance imaging.
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