Daniel Moreira & Rita Castro Neves

Habitar a Floresta [Inhabit the Forest] is a project to activate the Foyer at Teatro Campo Alegre, within the scope of Foco Familias. A forest space to inhabit, walk, ride, fly, walk slowly, observe. A fabric curtain announces (and hides) the forest behind. Only after crossing it do we realize the clearing where we are. It is the curtain of the theater that opens. In the forest there are bushes where we can hide, and find covers to become birds. There are swinging animals, sticks and wheels, which help us to cross the forest, fast or slow, avoiding others and going around obstacles. Beware: a bush hides an animal after all. The curtains also serve as a backdrop for taking pictures, in which we are also plants. We are in a world where humans, animals and plants seem to be one.


Daniel Moreira e Rita Castro Neves live and work between Porto and the Beira Alta region. Daniel Moreira holds a BA in Architecture, starting in 2000 a multidisciplinary path between architecture and fine art. Rita Castro Neves, after finishing her photography training at the Lisbon’s Ar.Co School of Visual Arts and the Master in Fine Art at the Slade School of Art in London, has been exhibiting regularly, teaching and curating.
With separate artistic paths the duo started collaborating in 2015 with Laking, following an invitation by the Finish art space Oksasenkatu 11, and initiating a long project on the representation of landscape, using drawing, photography and video – in installation, to think about artistic collaboration, different techniques and artistic cultures, territory, scale and journey. Since then Rita and Daniel have been exhibiting extensively in solo and group shows, as well as working in the context of artistic residencies. In 2020 the duo finished the renovation project of the Escola de Macieira, a former elementary school of the Portuguese dictatorial Plano dos Centenários, in the Serra de São Macário, in Beira Alta, where they have started a project on mountain culture, nature and the rural, ecology, biopolitics and environmental preservation.