Inês Zenha arrived in Paris in 2018, a 23-year-old transgender artist known for transforming discarded street objects into art. Their practice took a decisive turn five years later with “Ressurreição (Resurrection)” (2023), an immersive exhibition that boldly addressed the fluidity of gender. This urgent and provocative body of work at the Kunsthalle Lissabon, a contemporary art institution in Lisbon, Portugal, marked Zenha’s first solo presentation. Rendered entirely in white ceramic, the on-site installation reimagined the sanctity of the church as a bathroom—a space of austere beauty charged with metaphors of purity, decay, vulnerability, and endurance. . .
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