Laetitia M.

Laetitia Morais is a visual artist and researcher with a degree in Fine Arts - Painting from FBAUP. Between 2014 and 2022, she conducted research at ZHdK (Zurich) and Kunstuniversität Linz. A higher education lecturer since 2007, she is currently a Professor of Artistic Projects and Expanded Cinema at the School of Arts of the Catholic University of Portugal. Her practice investigates the intersection between fiction and cultural heritage through video, drawing, and installation. Her work has been presented at institutions such as CIAJG (Guimarães), Galerias Municipais do Porto (Porto), Porta 33 (Funchal), Mota Museum (Ljubljana), General Public (Berlin), Experimental Intermedia Foundation (New York), NYU Abu Dhabi, and Ongoing Art Center (Tokyo). Among her honors are the Ernesto de Sousa Fellowship (2011), the Best Music Video Award at Curtas Vila do Conde (2016), the Shuttle and Criatório (Plaka) grants, and the Visual Arts Creation Grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2024). Co-founder of the production company LAIA, she served as president of the Torre Experimental Cinema Laboratory (2019–2023). In 2025, she founded Guarda Soleiros, an artistic research center dedicated to traditional and contemporary practices, a project currently in development. She is represented by the PAKD gallery (Berlin).