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‘Enough of this suffering!’ Joana Vasconcelos on why she is fed up with women’s art defined by pain
Source: The Guardian · Published
<p>The Portuguese artist is famous for her monumental ceramic wedding cakes and gigantic chandeliers made of tampons. So why is a new show in Lisbon pairing her with Valentino’s size-zero catwalk…
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