This exhibition features works by Lourdes Castro (Funchal, 1930 – 2022) from the 1960s. Resorting to different media —publications, drawing, embroidery, Plexiglas—, and sometimes produced together with other artists, these works stress the importance of collaborations, and of the relationship between art and everyday life in her artistic practice.

Originally associated with French nouveau réalisme —which emphasised the relationship between art and reality, particularly with the visual landscapes of cities, increasingly saturated with signs and with the accumulation of objects whose obsolescence has accelerated ever more rapidly since the Second World War— Lourdes Castro’s trajectory has produced a resolutely singular oeuvre in which silhouettes and shadows take centre stage.