Existem pedras nos olhos

With the presentation of a selection of works dating from various periods – and unfolding across multiple media (from drawing to painting, from graphic arts to illustration, from video to installation) – the exhibition Existem pedras nos olhos aims to create dialogical universes that enable reflection on the ways in which she has been investigating issues of identity, sexuality, gender equality, resistance to history, the politics inherent to the private sphere, and the poetics inherent to the political. The ongoing historical revision she seeks to promote through her interventions, and the socio-political reflective environments she continually summons, bring a tension to her work, placing the viewer in a position of unease and sustained discomfort. Humour, wordplay, encrypted citations, childhood and youth references, graphic devices, art history, literature, cinema, and popular culture are strategies she frequently employs in the construction of a distinctive and particularly idiosyncratic artistic lexicon.

Biography

Alice Geirinhas
Évora, 1964

In the field of artistic creation and research, she has developed a body of work grounded in intersectional feminist theory, addressing identity, sexuality, gender equality, resistance to history, the idea that the personal is political, and the poetics of the political. This work unfolds across various media, including drawing, artist’s books, fanzines, video, and installation.

Following her first solo exhibition in 1995, A Nossa Necessidade de Consolo É Impossível de Satisfazer, at Zé dos Bois (ZDB), she presented several others, including *Alice*, Bedeteca de Lisboa; Ce sex qu’est pas un, Museu do Neo-realismo, Vila Franca de Xira; and Chora, Gaivotas 6, Lisbon.

Among the group exhibitions in which she has participated, highlights include: Ver no Escuro, CAA, Águeda; 15 Anos de MACE – Aqui Somos Rede, Elvas; 2012–2020 Obras da Coleção António Cachola, MACE, Elvas; Ponto de Fuga / Vanishing Point, Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon; A Guerra como Modo de Ver, MACE, Elvas; Género na Arte: corpo, sexualidade, identidade e resistência, MNAC, Lisbon; Re-produtores de Sentido, SESC Rio, Rio de Janeiro; Portugal: 30 Artists Under 40, The Stenersen Museum, Oslo; Em Torno de Camilo – II Bienal de Famalicão, Fundação Cupertino de Miranda; and the Biennial of Young Artists, Rijeka, Croatia.

Her work is represented in several public and private collections and is regularly published in books and specialised journals.

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Ana Anacleto
Lisbon, 1975

She holds a degree in Sculpture from FBAUL and a postgraduate qualification in Curatorial Studies from FBAUL/Gulbenkian. She was a scholarship holder at the HdK (University of Berlin) and is currently a PhD candidate in Contemporary Art at the Colégio das Artes – University of Coimbra.

She worked as a specialised technician in contemporary art at IAC-MC (2001–2003), as assistant and studio coordinator for Julião Sarmento (2003–2015), as curator and curatorial coordinator at MAAT / Fundação EDP (2015–2018), and as curator and visual arts programmer at CAV, Coimbra (2020–2023), where she conceived and presented the exhibition cycle *Museu das Obsessões*.

She has pursued her activity as an independent curator since 2003, having conceived curatorial and editorial projects for numerous national and international museums and institutions, including Museu de Serralves, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Culturgest, Museu Colecção Berardo, MACE, CAV, CAPC, Colégio das Artes, Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar, Fidelidade Arte, Fundação Carmona e Costa, Galerias Municipais de Lisboa, Quartel da Arte Contemporânea de Abrantes, MIAA, Centro de Artes de Águeda, Centro de Arte Oliva, Galeria Municipal de Torres Vedras, ZDB, Fundação PLMJ, Palacete de São Bento / Official Residence of the Prime Minister of Portugal, Instituto Camões, Appleton Square, Travessa da Ermida, LUX Frágil, Krinzinger Projekte (Vienna), ArteInstitute (New York), Galeria 3+1, Galeria Nuno Centeno, Galeria Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Galeria Caroline Pagés, Galeria Presença, Galeria Lehmann+Silva, and Gabinete Giefarte.

She was a member of the Committee for the Acquisition of Contemporary Art for the State Collection – MC (2021–2022 biennium). She is currently a member of the Committee for the Acquisition of Contemporary Art for the EGEAC Collection – Lisbon City Council.

She has carried out research, analysis, and consultancy work for private collections.

She has published essays, texts, and articles in catalogues and monographs; collaborated with the journals XXI – Ter Opinião, Pangloss, L+Arte, Umbigo, and Contemporânea; delivered public presentations at conferences, seminars, and academic events; conducted thematic guided tours in collaboration with various museum institutions; served on juries for awards, research grants, and artist residencies; and held numerous public conversations with artists within the scope of different exhibition projects.

She is a resident curator and coordinator of the mentoring programme at the RAMA artist residency project.

Since 2019, she has taught the course “Curatorial Practices” in the Postgraduate Programme in Curatorship at FCSH – NOVA, Lisbon, and since 2023, the course “Art and Contemporaneity” in the Master’s degree in Fine Arts at ESAD.CR, Caldas da Rainha.