Looking for Signal, the solo exhibition by Rita Castanheira, alludes to the artist’s new work on the constant search for connection, the breaking of cycles and disintegrated memories. The textile becomes a material core.

Rita Castanheira (b.1996) is a Portuguese artist living and working between Porto and London. She completed her studies in Fine Art Multimedia at Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto in 2018 and earned her master’s degree from Chelsea College of Arts in 2020. The artist uses new media alongside performance, installation and various textile techniques.
Her work remains on the threshold between the virtual and what is the object, resorting, for example, to the use of avatars, technological devices and forms of communication typical of internet discourse. She has been exhibiting her work since 2016. She has participated in group exhibitions in Portugal and the United Kingdom, such as: “Feminino de Ninguém” at Espaço Mira (Porto, 2024), “Houseshare” at Firstsite Colchester (Colchester, 2021), “Late at Tate: Time” at Tate Britain (London, 2019) and “Time-Lapse” at CAVE Solar Art Gallery (Vila do Conde, 2017).