Developed within the scope of the exhibition Existem Pedras nos Olhos by Alice Geirinhas, this publication deepens the artist’s dialogical universe, focusing on questions of identity, sexuality, gender equality, the politics inherent in the private realm, and the poetics inherent in the political through essays by Sara Antónia Matos and Pedro Faro, Susana Pomba, and curator Ana Anacleto.
It features a visual record of the exhibition held at Galeria Quadrum from February 21 to April 28, 2024.
“Alice Geirinhas has explored multiple issues during her career related to identity, sexuality and gender equality, which expose the systemic violence that affects women’s lives and survival. In a global world, that seems to be moving backwards in terms of rights and dignity, Alice Geirinhas’ work, sometimes in collaboration with other artists, has striven to uphold change, denounce gender inequality and social injustice, and develop provocative critical perspectives.”
— Sara Antónia Matos / Pedro Faro
“The struggle for equity of citizenship and full equal rights continues, thus, to be the necessary response to an on-going and constant discrimination that has become structurally a part of our social fabric and is responsible for many of the processes through which female artists have been made invisible throughout the construction of History’s building, in particular the Art History building.”
— Ana Anacleto
“The title of Alice Geirinhas’ exhibition, There are stones in our eyes, is taken from one of Horta’s poems, because the connections and courage of the Three Marias, like so many women in the feminist movements that began in the 1970s, continue to be important, and still need to be talked about today.”
— Susana Pomba