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.
Inspired by Saidiya Hartman's 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.
[Text extracted from FAS Collection in Lisbon]
