Helena Gouveia Monteiro is a visual artist and experimental filmmaker from Portugal. She received her MFA from ENSA Villa Arson in Nice in 2015 and lives and works in Dublin.
Her work has been shown internationally in cinema and gallery spaces and she is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and Fingal County Council.
Her recent experimental short film “Purkyně's Dusk” is distributed by Light Cone Paris and was screened at the Oberhausen International Film Festival, the Experimental Competition of the Vila do Conde International Film Festival and the Rencontres Cinéma et Vidéo de Nice in 2021. She is currently working on “Man of Aral” (Arts Council of Ireland Film Project Award 2022).
She was a resident at Fire Station Artists' Studios in Dublin and Light Cone Atelier 105 in Paris in 2020, and at Hangar in Lisbon, Leitrim Sculpture Centre and L'Abominable Coop Film Lab in Paris in 2021, and participated in the Oberhausen Seminar 2022.
Concerned with the history of technical images and influenced by experimental cinema and media archaeology, she creates films, books and multimedia installations that engage different levels of visual and cultural recognition to question our perception of language and audiovisual experiences.
She is a co-founder of Stereo Editions, an independent editorial collective of artists' editions and currently co-directs the LUX Critical Forum Dublin.