erinies: grudge, punishment and revenge — rafael vascon exhibition

10 > 22 SEPTEMBER 2025 I FBAUL CISTERN

The exhibition ERINIES: grudge, punishment and revenge by Rafael Vascon opens on 10 September at 3pm in the Cisterna da Faculdade de Belas-Artes.

This event may be photographed and filmed and subsequently made public.

Hours: Monday to Saturday – 12:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Between chaos and cosmos, all certainty is abdicated, all sacredness is profaned. Between Hades and Athens, in this land of ruins and omens where all that is solid melts into air, the Erinyes awaken—shadow guardians of a rejected, wounded, corrupted memory. Their songs echo against the silence imposed by centuries of colonialism, against the museification of bodies that could never rest in peace. They finally return, not as an exotic spectacle for the gazes that consumed them, but as a specter that refuses to be tamed by official history. Their flesh is no longer a showcase: it is a fissure, a tear, and a summons. Each exposed fragment is not an object, but a testimony—a living reminder that the body is not destiny, but a political invention built on the violence of classification, of the gaze, and of desire. Here, archives burn, monuments crumble, and the boundaries between myth and history fade. Neutrality is impossible: every step is a pact with the ghosts that rise up here, every glance is crossed by those who were forced to bear the burden of a tarnished modernity. Therefore, before entering, be careful: this space offers no comfort—it is a profane ritual and mockery, a future that can only be born from the refusal to forget.