Maria Teresa Projecto is an artist and researcher. She has earned a PhD in Fine Arts from the University of Lisbon in 2023 with a dissertation on the concept of the sublime and artistic representation. She currently works as an artist, as a researcher and as a teacher. She was recently appointed to design a new MA program, being responsible for the syllabus in the units of Research Methodologies in Art and the postcolonial themed unit of Thinking the Image (IPLUSO, Lisbon). As a researcher, she is an active member of the Music and Thought and the Music and Interpretation Clusters, both at the Centre for the Study of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music (CESEM). Her theoretical work broadly encompasses the relationship between aesthetics, art and politics, mediated through the fields of art theory, philosophy, critical theory, and performance studies, with a focus on the issues of representation, interpretation, spectatorship, often through a postcolonialist lens and specifically through Black feminisms. She has devoted particular attention to the work of continental authors, chiefly among them the writer Georges Bataille and the philosopher Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. Teresa Projecto is the author of several translations into Portuguese from french authors such as Georges Bataille, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Pascal Quignard, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Bernard Sève, among others. With a grant from Fundação Calouste Gulbekian, she has participated in the edition and maintenance of the archives of Portuguese writer Maria Gabriela Llansol (2012-2016). As a visual artist, she has showcased in several group and solo exhibitions. As a lyrical singer (mezzo-soprano) and a performer, she has taken part in several performances and worked under many renowend conductors, and has perfected her vocal technique and interpretatin skills with different specialists (such as Jill Feldman, Geert Berghs, Marina Viotti, John Pickering or Eleonora Pacetti). She studies regularly with the internationally recognized soprano Rafaela Albuquerque. Recent performances include a recital dedicated to Manuel de Falla on Portuguese national radio Antena 2, accompanied by piansit Tiago Mileu («Serenata Andaluza», 2022), and the co-creation of «Salomé» (2023) by Mónica Calle, premiered in the national theatre of São João. She is currently completing a monograph titled «Painting Time: Chasing the Sublime, still?», based on her PhD thesis, and preparing a postdoctoral research on the philosopher Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's aesthetics.