This exhibition invites visitors to immerse themselves in the creative universe of poet Inês Lourenço, through her literary journey, editing career, personal archive, and the many relationships and friendships that shaped this singular voice in contemporary Portuguese poetry. Far from a simple retrospective, this display works as a map of the connections that permeate the author’s work and that make her poetry a place where literature, visual arts, critical thinking, and editing meet.

Books, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, works of art, and editorial documentation collected from the author’s personal archive attest to the depth of her aesthetic and human affinities, cultivated over time.

Also part of the exhibition is the totality of Lourenço’s body of work. Visitors will get a privileged look at the evolution of the author’s writing and the central themes in her poetry: time, memory, metamorphosis, language, the corporeal experience, and womanhood.

Over more than four decades, the author has developed a deeply distinctive poetic voice, at once intimate and critical, in which writing asserts itself as a continuous exercise in resistance, clarity and reinvention.

Lastly, Armando Guilherme’s interview with Inês Lourenço, titled Uma mulher à frente do seu tempo, which will be screened throughout the duration of the exhibition, looks back on eight decades of a life story that doubles as a form of defiance. The conversation delves into themes like poetry and emancipation, Porto and Portugal, the things that time can change, and the things, in a woman, that it cannot conquer.

Curation and Exhibition Design

Rita Roque

Documentary Research

Inês Lourenço

Sofia Lourenço

David Teixeira da Silva

Rita Roque

Film interview

Helena Teixeira da Silva

Armando Guilherme

Mural Design

Tomás Facio

Project Management

Sara Pinheiro

Joana Gomes

Assembly and installation

Sérgio Sá, Unipessoal Lda