Feast. Fury. Femina.

The exhibition Feast. Fury. Femina. – Works from FLAD’s Collection is the first time, at such an unprecedented and large scale, that part of FLAD’s (Luso-American Development Foundation) contemporary art collection is presented to the public. On display until January at the Tejo Power Station, the exhibition is an opportunity to get to know the work of 61 predominantly Portuguese artists from several generations.

The exhibition Feast. Fury. Femina. – Works from FLAD’s Collection marks the Luso-American Development Foundation’s 35th anniversary, and is almost exclusively composed of works by Portuguese artists. Feast. Fury. Femina. is an exhibition conceived from the Foundation´s collection—it is comprised of 228 pieces selected by the curators António Pinto Ribeiro and Sandra Vieira Jürgens, from more than 1000 which make up the collection.  

The exhibition—a co-production between FLAD and the EDP Foundation/MAAT—is part of a vast archive begun in 1986, made up mostly of drawings, and includes painting, photography and sculpture. These works establish dialogues and tensions, invoke diverse socio-historic frameworks, and represent the Portuguese artistic scene since the ’80s, as well as a generation of artists that values interdisciplinarity. 

Three axes emerge from the collection to name this exhibition. Feast. Fury. Femina. they are in dialogue with each other and generate ideologies: they celebrate the collection, evoke the performative dimension inherent to contemporary artistic practices and highlight the feminine dimension, demanding a renewed look on the history of art, which so obscured female artists. 

The end of 2019 and the year 2020 mark a return to the acquisition of works by FLAD, and the cataloguing of, and tending to, the Contemporary Art Collection, creating a data base in collaboration with Sistemas do Futuro. On display will be more than 25 of these recently acquired pieces, in line with the concept of transversality, which the exhibition intends to showcase.