O Que Eu Sou | What I Am

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What I Am is the second exhibition based on the EDP Foundation Art Collection at MAAT, part of a cycle presenting thematic perspectives of significant works of Portuguese contemporary art. This new selection of works invites visitors into the life and work of the artists, revealing the most intimate and least known spaces of the creative process and showing how objective and subjective worlds contaminate art. We thus point at themes inherent to the complementary and paradoxical relationship between the definition of the autobiographical self and of identity, the connections between paths taken in life and in art, as well as ideas of art, life and their various intersections. Adopting the title of a poem by Teixeira de Pascoaes (1877-1952), the exhibition presents new readings of the autobiographical and self-referential dimensions of artistic creation, reflecting on both the here and now and the resonances that result from the historic relationship between art and life.