The exhibition Feast. Fury. Femina. – Works from FLAD´s Collection marks the Luso-American Development Foundation´s 35^th anniversary and is almost exclusively composed of works by Portuguese artists. Feast. Fury. Femina. is the largest exhibition ever organized using the Foundation´s collection – it contains 228 pieces selected by the curators António Pinto Ribeiro and Sandra Vieira Jürgens, from the 1000 which make up the collection.

The exhibition – a co-production between FLAD and the EDP Foundation/MAAT – is part of a vast archive launched in 1986, comprised mostly of drawings, and includes painting, photography, and sculpture. These works establish dialogues and tensions, invoke diverse socio-historic frameworks, and represent the Portuguese artistic scene since the 80s, as well as a generation of artists that values interdisciplinarity.

Three axes emerge from the collection to name this exhibition. Feast. Fury. Femina. they are in dialogue with each other and generate ideologies: they celebrate the collection, evoke the performative dimension inherent to contemporary artistic practices and highlight the feminine dimension, demanding a renewed look upon Art History, which so neglected female artists.

The end of 2019 and the year 2020 mark a return to the acquisition of works by FLAD, and the cataloging of, and tending to, the Contemporary Art Collection, creating a database in collaboration with Sistemas do Futuro. On show will be more than 25 of these recently acquired pieces, in line with the concept of transversality, which the exhibition intends to showcase.