In addition to the 200 works by the 40 artists making up the exhibition that covers the Head Office’s Main Gallery and extends as far as the Temporary Exhibition Gallery of the Gulbenkian Museum, this platform also now contains over four dozen additional works that are not on physical display, chosen by the curators Helena de Freitas and Bruno Marchand. The platform suggests various different ways of dynamically and interactively exploring its content – whether by theme, artist, work or colour, and among others – through recourse to augmented reality. Any user may thus project the exhibition works into their own homes in order to gain an immersive experience in the exhibition.

Included within the scope of the Cultural Program for the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union All I Want –Portuguese Women Artists from 1900 to 2020 brings together works of art, whether paintings, sculptures, drawings, objects, books, tiles, installations, films or videos, produced from the beginning of the 20th century through to contemporary times, and explores the ways in which, in a universe that predominantly consecrates males, women evolved from muses to creators. These renowned artists include Aurélia de Sousa, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Lourdes Castro, Paula Rego, Ana Vieira, Salette Tavares, Helena Almeida, Joana Vasconcelos, Maria José Oliveira, Fernanda Fragateiro and Grada Kilomba, among many others, and are depicted in this exhibition through various works in order to provide the viewer with a broad image of their respective artistic universes.

The exhibition title is inspired on Lou Andreas-Salomé, an author who developed one of the most notable series of reflections on the role of women in social, intellectual, sexual and amorous contexts and correspondingly enveloping the artists selected here in a spirit of subtlety, affirmation and power.

With free entrance, this exhibition is an initiative by the Ministry of Culture with curatorship by the Gulbenkian Foundation and, in 2022, due to go on exhibition at the Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré, in Tours, under the auspices of the general programme for the Interwoven Portugal-France Season.