My Work is My Body, My Body is My Work.
— Helena Almeida
Helena Almeida is recognized among the great Portuguese artists. Her long career established her as one of the leading figures in performance and conceptual art as early as the 1970s, and earned her recognition through participation in major international events such as the Venice Biennale in 1982 and 2005. In 2016, her work was presented in a historic retrospective at the Jeu de Paume (Paris).
For nearly forty years, Helena Almeida has developed a body of work rooted in the exploration of the limits of painting, transforming concepts and experiences into images. She combined photographic imagery with drawing and the imprint of painting in compositions that probe space and draw attention to the surface of the work.