Bia de Sousa Costa  


         
Portuguese / London based  
 
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Works    

05. What can you gift? *
(sculpture) 
*Includes: Act I  collaborative performance
2025 

04. Marking time 
(photograph)
2025

03. I am angry and I am laughing
(film/performance)
2025

02. The Handbook
(sculpture) 
2025

01. Cathrin Hotel and Ordine 7A: Milano
(Soundscape/analogue photography)
2023



Experiments    

London series (1) (2)

Audio visual 




Writing & Reflection 
 
[Seasonal]




























































 



























































What Can You Gift?

(Sculpture)
210cm x 75cm 
OSB wood, metal, found objects, prints
 














 Marking Time 
(photograph) 

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I made the wood sculpture and used it as a template to perform ‘time’. 











I am angry and I am laughing 

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In preparation for the coming degree show, I made this film after The Handbook exhibition at Southwark Park Galleries

Throughout the making of it, I felt this liberation from performing the character you play in real life, an attempt to watch me go and disappear in a room full of other people.

This work is ultimately about giving in before finally giving up by laughing—laughing at yourself and the situation. 












The Handbook

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This piece stands on what it means to have a space where we speak in echoes of different voices. Some are loud and formal, others mumbling and giggling in between the walls it sustains. 

Inspired by my dissertation material on female artists being given the right respect as active members of society and contributing to an academic and social environment, I curate the viewers’ perception of the printed paintings and their value in the wider context of their time.  It’s the voices, the collective, the artist and the only - the muse. If anything, she is herself here - the artist holding the brush, double (my) pay and the length of my dream. These captions look at the show that we go through when thinking and making art. Whose reflection do we see? The scale of our own ambition.
‘Hand’ ‘book’ exists on a handwritten description on an etching plate next to it. 


@exhibited at Southwark Park Galleries, London, as a group show Momentarily Here.




   










Cathrin Hotel and Ordine 7A: Milano

(soundscapes /   audio-visual)  

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Sounds are created to shape the image scenery, whatever place they take the viewer. 
@exhibited for Reflection, at OXO Gallery in London,  2023 



EXPERIMENTS
[Includes untitled learning outcomes]


Photographs


London series (1) (2) 


(1) 






(2)






Audio - Visual
foto 1 (zurich)
foto 2 (wet windows) 
foto 3 (magical)
foto 4 (this is not hidden place be-yerk)



This work combines an experiment run on audio-visual production. In this exercise, I learned how to find action, story and character both in sound and in image, but individually.  The viewer sees as much as the imagination allows it to feel, so it becomes an attribute and appeal to sensations, creativity and presence. Inspired by readings of Michel Chion’s book Audio Vision.  Can an image produce a sound? Can a sound make an image? In this collection, I use analogue photography and as a consequence of sound or vice versa. 
























WRITING & REFLECTION
[Seasonal]



Suggestions
Audiovision by Michel Chion









Bia de Sousa Costa                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       @2025