We have here a women’s exhibition! A Bela e a tela: manifestações do feminino na arte (The beauty and the canvas: manifestations of the feminine in art) was designed to give visibility to women artists (often inhibited and prohibited from their creative freedom), presenting them as authors and not only as objects of representation.

The feminine has been placed several times in this position of object, represented in the history of art and at the same time repressed in various contexts. Here it was chosen as the theme of the works, but in this exhibition, we gathered the feminine represented by itself, by five artists manifesting their experiences through different languages of art. They present their stories, struggles and desires through their artworks, reaffirming their resistance and protagonism, showing their achievements and social, political, economic and cultural participation, among many other actions.

Over time, the struggle for gender equality has been debated and demanded, increasing women’s autonomy and participation in various areas of activity. The exhibition aims to value women as the author of their art and object of free representation in the artworks. The name that baptizes the exhibition plays with the social context that delegates to the woman the role of “Princess”, a “beautiful, delicate and housewife”, pronounced as essential adjectives of a woman. However, it is necessary to have counterpoints to this thought, so that the feminine freedom is, above all, respected according to what the woman herself wishes to be. The “A bela e a tela” represents nothing more than the free woman to express her art without being devalued or cursed, becoming herself, the Beauty, the Beast and the screen of her life.