Leonor Antunes

For this exhibition, the artist proposes an intervention on the entirety of the main gallery space. The starting point of the constant inequality of leonor’s days, which takes its title from a drawing by Ana Hatherly in the CAM Collection, was Antunes’ research on the works and journeys of women artists, key figures in the modernist movement who have been forgotten or marginalised by a history shaped by inequality. By summoning these multiple stories, geographies and practices of different women artists, Antunes works to reinscribe them into a canonical male history, incorporating them as a “base material” of her own sculpture.

In close relation to her own work, Leonor Antunes has selected works by women artists and from historically less valued artistic practices, of which many are shown here for the first time, opening the collection up to new connections and interpretations. By using her own name in the exhibition title, the artist feeds into questions about the vulnerability of the creative gesture itself and on what it means to be an artist.

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