Inês Zenha (Lisbon, 1995) is a Portuguese artist living in Paris, whose work combines myriad techniques. The artist’s practice focuses on the body and its representation, exploring questions of identity, desire, vulnerability and power.

‘Murky Waters’ expands on the artist’s research into the body, proposing a fluid and resilient representation that celebrates water and the notion of ‘becoming liquid’ as a poetic way of confronting systems of power.

The works presented stem from complex relationships between the body – simultaneously holy and profane – and water, as well as other bodily fluids. Here, liquids become powerful metaphors, symbolising the urgent need to erase divisions and demolish discriminations, transforming these spaces into gestures of love.

On an underground journey – which travels through bodies, reservoirs, drainage networks and water ingress – the exhibition invites us to feel the digestive and respiratory systems of the water inside us. In an act of visceral affirmation, Inês Zenha frees the body from its traditional representation to create a new iconography. 

The exhibition is a co-production with CA2M – Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, in Madrid.