A new exhibition in Lisbon pairs Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos with Valentino’s size-zero catwalk dresses, bringing together fashion and an artist known for monumental ceramic wedding cakes and gigantic chandeliers made of tampons.

The pairing accompanies Vasconcelos’s challenge to the way women’s art is understood through suffering. “Enough of this suffering!” she says, rejecting pain as the defining narrative for women’s artistic work.

The works described suggest a contrast in scale between the oversized objects for which Vasconcelos is known and the size-zero dresses described in the pairing. That contrast provides a starting point for considering the pairing, but the supplied material does not explain the exhibition’s curatorial approach or identify the individual works on display.

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