Catarina Mil-Homens lives and works in Vendas Novas, Portugal. She graduated with a Research MFA from VCA - The University of Melbourne, a BA in Painting from the University of Lisbon, and a BA in Design from IADE - Faculty of Design. She graduated in acting from Cinema and Television Academy of Lisbon and Goldsmithing at Contato Direto Goldsmith School of Lisbon. Mil-Homens’s received the VCA - Victorian College of the Arts Foundation Bursary, the Auchant Foundation Scholarship and was awarded the Galloway Lawson Prize. Her exhibitions include: “Reattunement” Appleton Box, 2024, PT (solo); “The Statistics of Fortune” Macao International Art Biennale, 2023, CN; “We Are Also The Ghost” UmaLulik gallery, 2022, PT (solo); “On The Blade” UmaLulik gallery, 2019, PT (solo); “Intermater” Arcade project space, 2017, AU (solo); “Who is Mr Favisar?” Trocadelo gallery, 2015, AU; “Summer Calling” Sala do Veado, National Museum of Natural History, 2013, PT; and “It’s Not Always Straight” Módulo gallery, 2013, PT (solo). Her Artwork is featured in private collection in Portugal, Australia and Brazil. Mil-Homens is a visual artist and researcher with a multidisciplinary artistic practice that encompasses the mediums of installation, drawing, video, painting and sculpture. Her research focuses on exploring the role of consciousness in the relationship between mind and body, with a special interest in the impact of this relationship on emotions, health and, social and identity constructs. The work is characterized by a deep engagement with the fundamental questions that underlie our experience of the world around us. It explores the impact of mystical experiences on human consciousness and on how we perceive technology—both modern and ancient. Her creative process is driven by a desire to investigate the boundaries of what we currently understand about the nature of reality, fueling the curiosity about alternative perspectives and potential futures.