Lamas has in the last 15 years maintained a regular artistic practice, with the production of more than 30 projects, her work has been exhibited and distributed in the field of cinema (movie theatres, festivals, VOD streaming) and visual arts (galleries, museums, art fairs, biennials) being the target of national and international retrospectives. Her work has been acquired by public and private collections. Lamas regularly visits institutions for juries, seminars, workshops and master classes. She studied cinema in Lisbon and Prague, visual arts in Amsterdam and is a Ph. D candidate in contemporary art studies in Coimbra.
Her work has been screened both in art venues and film festivals
such as Berlinale, Locarno, BAFICI, Museo Arte Reina Sofa, FIAC, MNAC – Museu
do Chiado, DocLisboa, Cinema du Réel, Visions du Réel, MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, Museo
Guggenheim Bilbao, Harvard Film Archive, Museum of Moving Images NY, Jewish
Museum NY, Fid Marseille, Arsenal Institut für Film und Videokunst, Viennale,
Culturgest, CCB – Centro Cultural de Belém, Hong Kong FF, Museu Serralves, Tate
Modern, CPH: DOX, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Genève, Bozar, Louvre,
Tabakalera, ICA London, TBA 21 Foundation, CAC Vilnius, MALBA, Haus der
Kulturen der Welt, FAEMA, SESC São Paulo, MAAT, La Biennale di Venezia
Architettura, among others.
Lamas was granted several fellowships such as the Gardner Film
Study Center Fellowship – Harvard University, Film Study Center-Harvard
Fellowship, The Rockefeller Foundation – Bellagio Center, Brown Foundation –
Dora Maar House, Fundación Botín, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Sundance,
Bogliasco Foundation, Luso-American Development Foundation – FLAD, MacDowell,
Yaddo, CNAP Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Civitella Ranieri, Camargo
Foundation, Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD.
She is adjunct professor at ESAD.CR School of Arts and Design
(Portugal), collaborates with the School or Arts of the Universidade Católica
Portuguesa (Portugal), Elias Querejeta Zine Eskola (Spain), Diriyah Art Futures
Center (Saudi Arabia). She collaborates with the production company O Som e a
Fúria and Primeira Idade and is represented by Kubik Gallery and Galeria Miguel
Nabinho. After
being in the direction of APR - Portuguese Director’s Association. In 2020 she
founded, with the support of a group of artists, AAVP - Portuguese Association
of Visual Artists in Portugal.
At MacDowell in 2013, Lamas completed her video installation to be
shown at Chiado Museum - National Museum of Contemporary Art, in Lisbon,
Portugal. She also completed the editing of Theatrum
Orbis Terrarum a short film to premiere at DocLisboa.
During her 2018 residency, she worked on the film/video
installation Fatamorgana, which premiered
later that year. She also worked on the script for the feature Ouro e Cinza, a commission for the Venice Biennale
of Architecture, selected footage for Untitled
(working title) from a research grant trip in 2016 to the jungle of Kalimantan,
Borneo, and finalised the production of Extinction
(2018) currently on tour.
During her 2022 Fellowship, she completed the final draft of Ouro e Cinza (Gold and Ashes) produced in 2022 by
O Som e a Furia. She also worked on preparing a location scouting trip to the
Delta of Niger for Pantheras, a non-fiction
film about the ecocide and human rights violation due to oil extraction in the
region, produced by Primeira Idade (Portugal), Cima Films (France), JB
Multimedia Studios (Nigeria).
In 2023, Lamas organized and selected materials from her work
archive dated 2016-2023 to be handled by an editor, for the second volume of
the on-going collection Parafiction (Salomé Lamas: Parafiction selected works 2010-2016
was published in 2016). This volume will include the booklet 'On the creative
act and other pragmatisms' that is now partially written. The collection is
distributed by Mousse Publishing. She has also conducted research for a new
feature film and a documentary both to be produced by the film company O Som e
a Furia.
