All I want: The House
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 9 – The House
While the living world is our common home, our own four walls are artificial constructions where many of our personal ghosts reside, places where women (considered physically, socially, politically and historically) conduct some of their most complex relationships.
Tree (1972/1973) by Ana VieiraOriginal Source: Collection Carlos Nogueira
Tree, 1972-1973
Wood, net, spray paint and objects
98,6 x 69 x 8,4 cm
Collection Carlos Nogueira
By projecting the spectres and sounds of a home or displaying tangible objects strewn around by inhabitants, Ana Vieira and Patrícia Garrido set before us spaces that condense an intimate and at times awkward reality.
Furniture to the cube (A.L.T.) (2013) by Patrícia GarridoOriginal Source: Collection Patrícia Garrido
Furniture to the cube (A.L.T.), 2013
Wood, iron fittings and glue
95 x 95 x 95 cm
Collection Patrícia Garrido
28 metres (in 63 parts) (2004) by Patrícia GarridoOriginal Source: Collection Patrícia Garrido
28 metres (in 63 parts), 2004
Rubber, wire
70 x ø 27 cm
Collection Patrícia Garrido
Untitled (Self-Portrait) (not dated) by Aurélia de SousaOriginal Source: Collection Pedro Aguiar-Branco
Untitled (Self-Portrait), not dated
Painted ceramic plate
ø 31,5 cm
Collection Pedro Aguiar-Branco
Untitled (c. 2000) by Ana VieiraOriginal Source: Estate Ana Vieira
Untitled, c. 2000
Silicone and plexiglas
75 x 42 x 30 cm
Estate Ana Vieira, inv. AV.200A.O.003
Untitled (Venus) (2002) by Ana VieiraOriginal Source: Collection Carlos Nogueira
Untitled (Venus), 2002
Wood and fiberglass
127 x 78,2 x 40 cm
Collection Carlos Nogueira
Our homes are places for us to dream and feel protected from the world, but they may also be places of violence and oppression. If the house is a paradoxical shelter, so too are the casts of bodies, own or other, that Ana Vieira and Maria José Oliveira have rendered concrete and which hover in a state of tension between interior and exterior, objective and subjective.
Milieu – Dining Room (1971) by Ana VieiraCalouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Milieu – Dining Room, 1971
Nylon mesh, painted wooden table, crockery, glassware, inox knives, sound
200 x 312 x 312 cm
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian – Centro de Arte Moderna, inv. 78E608
Muscular System and Vertebral Column (2004) by Maria José OliveiraOriginal Source: Art Collection Fundação EDP
Muscular System and Vertebral Column, 2004
Raw screen with gold leaf, clay and waxed cord string
c. 45 x 40 x 24 cm
Art Collection Fundação EDP, inv. EDP.01077
Wing – the soul isn't measured in inches (2010) by Maria José OliveiraOriginal Source: Art Collection Fundação EDP
Wing – the soul isn't measured in inches, 2010
White cotton canvas, waxed cord string and iron
92 x 74 cm
Art Collection Fundação EDP, inv. EDP.0432
Body I (2019/2020) by Maria José OliveiraOriginal Source: Collection Maria José Oliveira
Body I, 2019-2020
Volcanic clay and paraffin
29 x 48 cm; 50 x 33 cm
Collection Maria José Oliveira
Body II (2019/2020) by Maria José OliveiraOriginal Source: Collection Maria José Oliveira
Body II, 2019-2020
Volcanic clay and paraffin
29 x 48 cm; 26 x 44 cm
Collection Maria José Oliveira
fifth finger (2018) by Armanda DuarteOriginal Source: Collection of the Artist
fifth finger, 2018
Leather (pair of shoes) and black crayon on the floor
10 x 23 x 10 cm
Collection of the Artist
From the series “The Vertebral and the Invertebrate II” (2007) by Susanne ThemlitzOriginal Source: Collection Norlinda and José Lima on loan to Centro de Arte Oliva
From the series “The Vertebral and the Invertebrate II”, 2007
Bronze, resin, polyurethane, wood, cotton and paint
Sculptures: 81 x 31 x 21 cm; 13 x 23 x 10 cm; 4,5 x 13,5 x 13 cm;
Base: 80,4 x 48,4 x 48,2 cm
Collection Norlinda and José Lima on loan to Centro de Arte Oliva, inv. NAO-000757
“From the State of the Intertravelled" (2006) by Susanne ThemlitzOriginal Source: Courtesy Galeria Vera Cortês
“From the State of the Intertravelled", 2006
Backpack, strings, shoes, clothes, collage on artificial fur, cotton bag, baked clay, hooks
150 x 45 x 40 cm
Courtesy Galeria Vera Cortês
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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.
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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:
Armanda Duarte
Patrícia Garrido
Aurélia de Sousa
Ana Vieira
Maria José Oliveira
Susanne Themlitz
