Exhibitions
Multiple Eyes or the power of seeing from other places
In a time marked by image saturation, the constant mediation of screens, and algorithms that condition much of our perception of reality, the exhibition Multiple Eyes proposes reclaiming the gaze as an open, collective, and transformative act. The show, which brings together the works of Patricia Domínguez, Ines Doujak, and Lubaina Himid at the MAC/CCB in Lisbon until October 25, presents a critical reflection on the ways in which we construct knowledge, memory, and identity.
Curated by Nuria Enguita and Rafael Barber Cortell, the exhibition brings together three artists from different generations who share a conception of art as a space for encounter and resistance against singular narratives. Their practices are based on storytelling not as a closed structure, but as a changing territory where different voices, knowledge, and ways of interpreting the present coexist.
Multiple Eyes champions a multifaceted perspective in opposition to the logic of binary and hierarchical narratives. The works on display move between the sensory, the symbolic, the ancestral, and the spiritual, also incorporating elements from popular culture, carnival, magic, and the abject. A collection of seemingly disparate languages finds common ground in the exhibition, challenging established categories and opening new avenues of understanding.
Chilean artist Patricia Domínguez is developing research on the relationships between nature, technology, and spirituality. Her works explore the invisible connections between human and non-human organisms, recovering ancestral knowledge that has been displaced by dominant models of scientific and economic thought. Her work proposes alternative ways of understanding our relationship with the planet, moving away from an extractive vision and focusing on interdependence.
For her part, Ines Doujak constructs a profoundly political practice that intertwines history, colonialism, gender, and power. Through images laden with irony, excess, and grotesque elements, the artist questions the structures that have defined who can be represented and who is relegated to silence. Her work uses provocation and imagination as tools to dismantle official narratives and recover hidden memories.
Lubaina Himid, a key figure in contemporary British art, incorporates issues of identity, diaspora, racism, and cultural representation into her work. Her production, characterized by its use of color and painterly tradition, critically examines historical narratives, bringing to the forefront voices that have been silenced for centuries.
The dialogue between the three artists generates a constellation of perspectives where difference ceases to be seen as a threat and becomes a source of knowledge. The exhibition proposes abandoning the idea of a single possible interpretation and embracing the idea that the world is constructed from multiple experiences, memories, and ways of imagining.
In the face of communication systems increasingly conditioned by mechanisms of control and automatic selection, Multiple Eyes champions storytelling as an intimate and collective practice. Telling stories thus becomes a political act: a way to create connections, generate empathy, and acknowledge other ways of being and thinking.
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