Ana Cristina Pereira (aka Kitty Furtado) is a cultural critic committed to blurring the boundaries between academia and the public sphere. Currently, she is a researcher at CECS (U. Minho) developing her project, The Black Gaze (2023.08077.CEECIND), and a visiting professor at FBAUP (U. Porto). She is an independent curator of (post)colonial and Black-Cinema film exhibitions and promotes public discussions on Memory, Racism, and Reparations, being the creator and coordinator of the Reparations Art-Lab (mala voadora, Porto, 2023). She was part of the curatorial team for Portugal’s representation at the 2024 Venice Biennale, and within that role, she served as the Biomes program curator.
Kitty Furtado is an active member of SOPCOM’s Visual Culture Working Group, which she coordinated from 2019 to 2024. She is the deputy editor of VISTA: Journal of Visual Culture. Among other texts and special issue publications, she co-authored the book Abrir os Gomos do Tempo: Conversas sobre Cinema em Moçambique/Opening the Buds of Time: Conversations on Cinema in Mozambique (2022) with Rosa Cabecinhas. Kitty Furtado is a proud member of the Black Movement in Portugal, a member of SOS Racismo, and part of the Board of Directors of the Forum Demos.
photo © Rui Murka