3 March 2026 07:00PM
To celebrate Isadora Neves Marques’ latest poetry book, Biography of a Fiction, we are very happy to invite you for a reading at the bookstore, followed by a special screening of 3 films by Isadora at L’Archipel!
❣ 7 pm – After 8 Books – Launch & Reading ❣
“Memory, sex, illness, theory, tenderness, shame; accelerated together until they collapse as independent concepts. In Biography of a Fiction, Isadora Neves Marques writes the body as a porous entity, at once wounded and speculative, dense with hormones, ghosts, scars and futures that never fully deliver. I am not sure that it is correct to say that she ‘writes the body,’ yet she does not write ‘about’ the body: she writes with it, through it, against it, even beyond it. An I stands for the self in its form and meaning: I means ‘me’ and I figures a tall, slender person: her own I, body and mind together in a word, a letter, a caligram. Biography of a Fiction is a body made book.”
— Filipa Ramos
“I read this book in a gasp during a romantic down and the poems pushed me back to the world where I can believe in sex again and in the art that’s entwined in it. That makes it sound like these poems are ‘only’ erotic but that’s not the case at all. Formally, this book is a wonder of concision where poetry is the material through which an impossible ‘I’ moderates fiction’s and eroticism’s limits, like in these lines which I can’t forget:
representation of eroticism nullified by emotional intensity;
the blockage of streamed pornography/ all leading up to you.
A book to devour and to linger with. A book that scrutinizes writing (fiction?), abandons it, and always comes back to it, as a way of living.”
— Claire Star Finch
“Biography of a Fiction sets the fabrication of binaries and the pain of their forced severances against the gradients they purport to supersede, and watches them blend: she/he, mother/child, child/world, self/sex, body/other, flesh/diagnosis. With lean glimpses of language and narrative, Isadora Neves Marques upends the systems of categories we use to dress up what is actually boundless relation, stripping it down to reveal its raw negative spaces, full and naked.”
— Aiden Farrell
❣ 9 pm – L’Archipel – Screening ❣
A MORDIDA (The Bite) - 26 min - 2019 - VOSTA
Between a house in the Atlantic Forest and a genetically modified mosquito factory near São Paulo, the polyamorous, non-binary relationship between Helmut, Calixto, and Tao intensifies as an epidemic starts spreading across Brazil.
TORNARSE UM HOMEM NA IDADE MEDIA (Becoming Male in the Middle Ages) 23 min - 2022 - VOSTA
Mirene and André, Carl and Vicente, are two couples in their thirties. While Mirene and André are facing fertility problems, Vicente decides to undergo an experimental procedure involving the implantation of an ovary in their body in the hope of having a child.
AS MINHAS SENSAÇÕES SÃO TUDO O QUE TENHO PARA OFRECER (My senses are all I have to offer) 20 min - 2024 - VOSTFR
Lourdes and Lana met telepathically using “sensory pills,” that allow remote access to other people’s sensations. Lourdes decides to visit her parents, Vicente and Carl, at their country house to introduce them to her girlfriend. Then a storm disrupts their weekend plans.
L’Archipel = 17 bd de Strasbourg, 10 min walk from the bookstore.
Tickets: 9 € / 7,5 € senior / 6,5 € students, jobseekers / Cartes UGC, CIP & CinéPass are accepted.
