PT Sofia Borges
Sofia has a degree in Art Expertise from ESAD - Fundação Ricardo do Espírito Santo.
And has a postgraduate degree in Museums and Education from the University of Évora.
She is currently studying for a PhD in History and Philosophy of Science/Museology at the University of Évora, IHC/In2Past, with a focus on Colonial Scientific Campaigns during the Estado Novo period - A case study of the first camping factory in Portugal (c. 1944-1979).
She has been working as a Museum Shop Coordinator and Consultant at Mapa das Ideias for 10 years.
She is particularly interested in material culture as a historical source.
My object
I realise, in this selection exercise, that I am surrounded by hundreds of objects that serve no purpose. Nothing, in the sense of their initial usefulness, in the purpose for which they were designed, in the response to a specific use that determined their form. They are no longer objects, what surrounds me are materialities that, in their current functional emptiness, have become indispensable for my aesthetic delight, for the eternal return of memories, for emotional comfort. In that human vanity that, in their unique and unrepeatable combination, they define me as a singular being.
Today these objects are this, tomorrow we'll see...