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Projects Journey to the interior of the lived cities, is the second part of a project related to the book by Italo Calvino, " The Invisible cities". This is an ongoing project that to date has resulted in 3 periods of residence in different cities and a set of pieces about each one of them. In this second phase of the project, I place myself in the position of the character Marco Polo, the one who creates from his travels and everything he records from them. This project has a first part, called Journey to the interior of the imagined cities. Istanbul - Turkey In the context of this project, in 2010 I did an artist residency in Istanbul. I focused my research on the experience of the city, on its energy with echoes from East and West and on discovering its history through the stories of the people I met. Story box , 2011 Short stories about Istanbul The canceled birthday party - 10´48" Wood, mirror and sound system Sculpture - 98x20x20cm Whirling Neighborhoods, 2011 Five machine-stitched drawings made with red tread on felt, five engines and digital programmer Variable dimensions Installation Story box, 2011 Story box, 2011 1/4 Whirling Neighborhoods, 2011 _A082590 Whirling Neighborhoods, 2011 1/8 Whirling Neighborhoods , 2011 Video of the installation in motion In between , 2011 Wood, paper, linen yarn and artificial silk bobines and light focus Variable dimensions Installation In between, 2011 In between, 2011 1/5

The Fort´s Dream , 2013 13´00 "video Color / Sound The Fort´s Dream is a work about Fort Alexander I made on the context of the project Journey into the cities experienced, as a result of an artist residency in the city of Kronstadt, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Built on an artificial island in the Gulf of Finland, near the coast of Kotlin island, fort Alexander was part of a defense line of structures created to protect Saint Petersburg from the attack of enemy troops. Completed in 1846, this monumental architecture, however, never got to chance to shoot a single one of its 137 cannons. In the Crimean War the mere sight of this imposing structure blocked an attack from the British fleet, but in 1896 the Fort was excluded from the list of defensive structures of the army. In 1898, due to an outbreak of Plague that reached the steppes of the Caspian Sea, its destiny of defense and protection came to life again. This isolated architecture seemed to be the ideal place to install an anti-plague laboratory to search a cure for this disease. Connected to the world by a boat named "Microbe", Fort Alexander gained then a new life. As part of the research and testing in the production of a serum, the Fort became the final home to several animals. Ilya Moiseevich Eisen, an employee of the Academy of Sciences who visited the place in 1900, was impressed with the small and large scale animals he found there. This “small Zoo” in the middle of the Gulf was described by him as “ship of the desert”. Walking silently in the courtyard he found camels, cows, reindeer and the horses, the animals that played the most important role in the investigation done on site. The laboratory was closed in 1917. The Fort became then part of the Russian Navy and was used for storage and repair purposes. It was abandoned in 1983 and has been empty since then. “The Fort´s Dream” evokes a possible memory of this place. The video shows a voyage to the Fort and also the empty galleries inside. In the stillness of the umpty rooms, where the only sound is the water hitting the banks of the island, images seem to emerge from the past merging with the ones from the present. The galleries of the Fort are like the rooms of a forgotten Museum, the scenario where the animals that once lived there stand “still”. Video Stills

Installation Unrest , 2010 Wood, silk threads, table with mirror, wooden piece with 24 bobines and polypropylene threads Variable dimensions Text Exhibition Unrest and G ame of illusions were two installations created for the exhibition The other side in 2010 Unrest, 2010 Unrest, 2010 1/5 Game of illusions , 2010 Half wooden table, half book and mirror with black pen drawing Variable dimensions Game of illusions , 2010 Game of illusions , 2010 1/5

Projects Where do my paths lead me , was a piece created in 2004 in the context of the exhibition Dressing Up Nature, a Site-specific project for the Monteiro Mor Park, Costume Museum in Lisbon. In this project, the aim was to create connections, from a contemporary perspective, between the Textile universe represented by the Museum and the environment of the Park where it is installed. This project was produced by the collective of artists participating in the exhibition from an idea of Carla Rebelo. Where do my paths lead me , 2004 Steel cables, artificial silk and cotton textile cables, red plastic coated copper wire and red aluminum ladder Site-specific installation of variable dimensions Where do my paths lead me Performance held on July 17, 2004 Dressing up Nature Exhibition Carla Rebelo dressed by Marisa Lourenço Where do my paths lead me, 2004 Where do my paths lead me, 2004 1/9 Where do my paths lead me, 2004 Where do my paths lead me, 2004 1/5

Installation Private landscapes , 2013 Installation consisting of a set of 4 mirrors, 4 black pen drawings and its reflection Variable dimensions Private landscapes it was a piece created together with the installation Gone to Earth in 2013 in the context of the Parérgon exhibition. Text Exhibition

Bio Lives and works in Lisbon Carla Rebelo has a degree in Sculpture from the FBAUL (2000). Studied Textiles, Scenography, and Drawing. Received an Artistic Creation Grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in 2010/11. Participated in artistic residencies in Portugal and also in Russia (2013); Madrid (2012) and Berlin (2011) and Istanbul (2010), following the project Journey to the interior of the lived cities. Has nominated for the Flad Drawing Prize (2024). Has been exhibiting collectively since 1999 both Nacional and Internationally . Her solo exhibitions include: Stone and String, MIAC, Internacional Museum of Contemporary Sculpture of Santo Tirso (2023); The City of Weavers, CAAA, Guimarães (2022); Tangent Orbits, Sptut&Nic, Oporto (2022); Geology of a Place, Casa A. Molder Gallery, Lisbon (2022); Segundo o seu próprio tempo, Diferença Gallery, Lisbon (2020); Um momento que se repete continuamente, Águas Livres 8 Gallery, Lisbon (2018); Paisagens Privadas, Diferença Gallery, Lisbon (2018); Um Pentágono, um Círculo, oito Livros, São Lázaro Library, Lisbon (2017); Marca de Água, Money Museum, Lisbon (2017); Becoming Water, Marquês de Pombal Palace, Oeiras, Portugal (2016); O destino seguia-nos o rastro como um louco com uma navalha na mão, Nogueira da Silva Museum, Braga, Portugal (2015); Um movimento quase imperceptível que tem a ver com o voo, Monumental Gallery, Lisbon (2014). The artist is represented in several public and private collections of which the following stand out: CACE, State Contem porary Art Collection; Collection of Artist Books from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Art Library; Center for Contemporary Art, Malaga; Luciano Benetton Imago Mundi Collection; Kronstadt History Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; Polish Art Foundation, Melbourne, Australia; MG Collection; Figueiredo Ribeiro Art Collection; Luís Ferreira Art Collection. See CV Memory, Time and Perception have been key words in the development of my work. My artistic language explores a metaphorical and poetic approach with relations to literature, history, mythology, travels and personal stories. I work with different materials and techniques, but the use of wood, the shadow, the mirror and the textile universe stand out. Space is a fundamental element in the creation of my pieces, many of them made specifically for the places where they are exhibited. I am interested in the morphology of the place, its details and particularities, its light, its small and large story. “Carla Rebelo creates a totality from fragments, a time out of time that inhabits the materiality and beauty of her sculptures, drawings and books. There are lines that intersect and interweave, fabrics, leaves, tree bark... The moment that her art summons is simultaneously an interior time, lived and eternalized, and an exterior time, delimited by history, which looks to the past and projects itself into the future. Without discontinuities, as in parallel mirrors in which the I-between-mirrors is multiplied into reflected images that dissolve into an endless perspective. This art is a science of continuity, everything is linked to everything. It is a slowly woven web, through which we rediscover the infinite complexity of the world, the timelessness of art.” Manuel Valente Alves, 2018

Projects Drawings in Shadow, 2011 Istanbul - The city and memory In the context of the project Travel to the interior of the lived cities I made an open residency in 2011 at Drawing Spaces in Lisbon. My project was to create a series of drawings based on my research experience in the city of Istanbul. Based on material collected on site, such as photographs, sounds or video images, a set of works were created that mirror the relationship established with this city. The Fort's Dream - (Fragment) , 2013 Video 13'00" Color/Sound Untitled, 2011 (small stories about Istanbul) Light table and set of two drawings Chinese ink on white paper 50X70cm (approximately) Untitled , 2011 Red elastics, nails, spotlight and sound installation Variable dimensions Drawing/Installation Drawings in Shadow, 2011 Overviews of the presentation of the work Open Residence - Drawing Spaces In memory, 2011 In memory, 2011 1/4 Untitled, 2011 Untitled, 2011 1/6 Untitled, 2011 Untitled, 2011 1/6 Exhibition overview - Drawing in Shadow Exhibition overview - Drawing in Shadow 1/11