Luisa Cunha: A Poetics of Absence and Echoes Luisa Cunha, born in Lisbon in 1949, isn’t merely an artist; she's a chronicler of the intangible – a weaver of silence, a sculptor of sound. Her work, deeply rooted in Portuguese identity yet profoundly international in scope, explores themes of memory, absence, and the subtle power of language to shape our experience of space. From her early studies in Germanic Philology at the University of Lisbon to her current practice encompassing drawing, photography, performance, and sound installations, Cunha’s trajectory is marked by a persistent questio…