Inner Spirits and Outer Landscapes

November 23, 2024 - January 11, 2025
Opening: November 22, 6pm
Hangar - Centro de Investigação Artística

Dawit L. Petros, Dimakatso Mathopa, Helena Uambembe, Kapwani Kiwanga,Sandra Poulson, Tuli Mekondjo, Yinka Shonibare and Zanele Muholi

Inner Spirits and Outer Landscapes is the first curated exhibition from the FAS Collection in Lisbon, that delves into the intricate relationship between domesticity, spirituality, and self-determination. This exhibition challenges conventional views of confinement within domestic and spiritual spaces, highlighting how personal, spiritual, and material realms intersect to create zones of care, resistance, and creative expression.

PROGRAMME

November 22, 6pm

Opening
November 23, 5pm

Talk with Mistura Allison & Péjú Oshin

November 22, 7pm

Tour with the curator Mistura Allison

Inner Spirits and Outer Landscapes is curated by Mistura Allison, as a guest-curator for the FAS Collection, and will be showcased at Hangar CIA. The diversified selection of artists include Dawit L. Petros, Dimakatso Mathopa, Helena Uambembe, Kapwani Kiwanga, Sandra Poulson, Tuli Mekondjo, Yinka Shonibare and Zanele Muholi. All the works featured in this exhibition are part of the FAS Collection with the exception of Tuli Mekondjo’s Kalunga ka Nangobe, which is included followed by a special invitation from the curator. This exhibition is produced by the FAS Collection & Hangar CIA.

Inspired by Saidiya Hartman’s (1) exploration of domestic labour as both subjugation and autonomy, the exhibition reimagines everyday environments — homes, landscapes, and bodies — as powerful sites of self-assertion and spiritual practice. It presents the domestic sphere not as a place of confinement but as a space for radical transformation and spiritual renewal, where sovereignty and autonomy are cultivated. By engaging deeply with themes of sovereignty, memory, and resilience, the artists in this exhibition transform traditional notions of domestic and external landscapes into powerful sites of living archives.Their practices consistently rethink the boundaries between the personal and the political, revealing how interconnected and continually reshaped these spaces are by those who inhabit them.

(1) Saidiya Hartman, “Manual for General Housework”, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2019)

Inner Spirits and Outer Landscapes

PROGRAMME

PRESS RELEASE