Helena Almeida - Corpus

"My work is my body, my body is my work"

Through drawing, painting, photography and video, Helena Almeida (born Lisbon, 1934), calls into the question traditional disciplines, constantly seeking to transgress the limits of the canvas or the sheet of paper in order to create "habitable spaces" in which reality and representation intersect. In her works, her body, which is both subject and support, encounters and manipulates the surrounding world. As the site of both political and personal expression, it acts, touches, senses and marks, leaving behind it moving traces. Titled Corpus, the Jeu de Paume's retrospective presents, for the first time in France, a group of works that are emblematic of this major figure of contemporary Portuguese art, spanning the 1960s to the present day.

Curators: João Ribas and Marta Almeida, Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto

An exhibition organized by Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, in collaboration with Jeu de Paume and WIELS, Centre d'art contemporain, Bruxelles.