Ellie Ga is a New York City-born, Lisbon-based artist and writer. Her films, texts and performances reflect a passion for multi-disciplinary knowledge exchange told through everyday conversations, poetic sidesteps and obsessive research, often in unexpected contexts: from the submerged ruins of the ancient Lighthouse of Alexandria (Square Octagon Circle) and the charting of the quotidian in the frozen Arctic Ocean (The Fortunetellers) to a study of messages in bottles, both as tools for studying oceans currents and as metaphor for exile (Strophe, A Turning; Gyres 1-3). In her film Quarries, stories of resistance are extracted from unlikely places and found on overlooked surfaces. Her ongoing project Cagarros Assembly developed thanks to a residency with Walk&Talk Festival.