TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary

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Inês Zenha

Inês Zenha (b. 1995, Lisbon) is a multidisciplinary artist based between Paris and Lisbon. Their practice spans installation, painting, sculpture, and ceramics, and is driven by an ongoing inquiry into the embodied experience of queerness. Zenha explores the body as a site of resistance and transformation—one marked by hetero-patriarchal pressures yet constantly seeking liberation and self-authored ontology.

Their work delves into themes of desire, intimacy, and vulnerability, often creating fragmented or fluid forms that challenge normative representations. Through material experimentation and sensorial layering, Zenha constructs poetic spaces that reimagine the body as porous, politicized, and in perpetual becoming.

A graduate of Central Saint Martins in London, Zenha’s evolving research continues to blur the boundaries between personal narrative, collective memory, and embodied politics.

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