The exhibition departs from Pop Art, as an emblematic and renowned artistic language from the middle of the 20th century, to explore the diversions that various Portuguese and English artists took from it. On display are artworks which inherited the sense of communication of Pop and used some of its visual resources – such as collage, cut outs, repetition, ready-made, the conjugation of various techniques in a single piece of work and photography –, but transcended the literalness of the images of classic Pop (of Anglo-American origin, from the end of the 1950s and the beginning of the 60s) subverting the power of the commonplace from which these images were created.

There was no intended entrance and exit to the exhibition. Instead, the space was conceived around two possible entrances (from the Main Building of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and from f the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum – Founder’s Collection). Similarly, the exhibition was not intended to have clearly identifiable sections, leaving it to the visitor to establish visual and thematic connections between the different exhibition areas.