All I want: Listen to Me
Discover the selection of works that integrate this thematic section of the exhibition “All I want – Portuguese women artists from 1900 to 2020” followed by the curators' text.
By Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Curators: Helena de Freitas and Bruno Marchand
Section 14 – Listen To Me
The closing section of the exhibition features works by Helena Almeida and Ana Vieira, who both experiment with different approaches to the idea of fusion between work and artist. Both assert themselves not just as authors, but also as models for their own work or as bodies capable of invoking and appropriating the bodies of others.
Untitled (Ref. #5) (2010) by Helena AlmeidaOriginal Source: Courtesy Galeria Filomena Soares
Untitled (Ref. #5), 2010
Black and white Photograph
125 x 135 cm
Courtesy Galeria Filomena Soares, inv. 6847
Seducing (2002) by Helena AlmeidaCalouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Seducing, 2002
Black and White Photograph
194 x 129 cm
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian – Centro de Arte Moderna, inv. 02FP366
Seducing (2002) by Helena AlmeidaCalouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Seducing, 2002
Black and white Photograph, acrylic paint
199 x 129,5 cm
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian – Centro de Arte Moderna inv. 02FP365
Ana Vieira brings us a choreographed arrangement of ghosts in Pronomes [Pronouns], the title of which reveals the erosion of individuality implied by the constitution of any community, emphasised by the blackness of the Azorean regional dresses.
Pronouns (2001) by Ana VieiraOriginal Source: Contemporary Art Collection Fundação Altice Portugal
Pronouns, 2001
Black felt mantles, iron and pewter plate, sound
130 x 75 cm
Fundação Altice
In an ongoing performance involving her body and the surrounding space, Helena Almeida variously questions visual media and its structural elements (canvas, colour, line), deconstructing the eroticism of an ageing body and condemning the silencing of a voice that insists and resists while trying to make itself heard.
The house (1979) by Helena AlmeidaOriginal Source: Collection Mário Sequeira
The house, 1979
Black and white photograph, acrylic paint
49,5 x 69 cm
Collection Mário Sequeira
The house (1979) by Helena AlmeidaOriginal Source: Ar.Co – Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual
The house, 1979
Black and white photograph, acrylic paint
40 x 29 cm
Ar.Co – Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual, inv. 27
Untitled (1969) by Helena AlmeidaOriginal Source: Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto
Untitled, 1969
Acrylic paint on canvas and wood
131 x 99 x 15 cm
Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, inv. FS 0745
Hear me (1979) by Helena AlmeidaCalouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Hear me, 1979
Super 8 video transferred to digital format; black and white, no sound, 3’46”
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian – Centro de Arte Moderna, inv. IM13
Drawing (1989) by Helena AlmeidaOriginal Source: Collection Caixa Geral de Depósitos
Drawing, 1989
Indian ink and horsehair on paper
39 x 29 cm
Collection Caixa Geral de Depósitos, inv. 422033
Hear me (1979) by Helena AlmeidaOriginal Source: Collection Caixa Geral de Depósitos
Hear me, 1979
Vintage fiber-base silver gelatin prints, glued on cardboard; Ed. 2/3
16 x (17,4 x 23,4 cm)
Collection Caixa Geral de Depósitos, inv. 360819
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Cover of the exhibition catalogueCalouste Gulbenkian Foundation
This exhibition brings together about two hundred works by forty female Portuguese artists. Its primary objective is to assist in rectifying the systematic erasure that works by these artists – like so of their sisters elsewhere in the world – have suffered since time immemorial.
You are in section 14 of 14.
The exhibition All I want: Portuguese women artists from 1900 to 2020, in its first moment at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, is part of the cultural program that takes place in parallel to the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2021.
Exhibition organized by the Portuguese Ministry of Culture, Directorate-General for Cultural Heritage (DGPC) and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in co-production with the Center of Contemporary Creation Olivier Debré, Tours, and with the collaboration of the Plano Nacional das Artes (Portugal).
Curatorship and text:
Helena de Freitas and Bruno Marchand
Get to know in detail the universe of artists presented in this section through a text by Lígia Afonso / Plano Nacional das Artes:
Helena Almeida
Ana Vieira
