Lenz publishes books on contemporary art, photography, architecture and design.
Our imprint includes catalogues, monographs, theory and artist books.
Vogliamo tutto. Pratiche culturali e lavoro è una pubblicazione sul lavoro all’interno del contesto socio-culturale in evoluzione: dagli impatti della rivoluzione industriale, al declino post-industriale, fino alla rapida accelerazione dell’era digitale.
Divine Drudgery is an artist book with collages and artworks by James Richards and Leslie Thornton, and contributions by artists, writers and poets centred around liminality and the aesthetics and politics of the invisible.
The book is the first comprehensive monograph on the polymorphous work of Athanasios Argianas. It is published on the occasion of Hollowed Water, a major solo exhibition at Camden Arts Centre in 2020 and ARCH, Athens, in 2021.
Through exquisite craftsmanship, and with reference to romantic nationalism, Ann Böttcher explores how aesthetic and political projections characterize notions of nature, and how such conceptions are taken up by countries, political movements, and other institutions.
Voices (Towards Other Institutions) is the final act of the coral, multiform, articulated, two-year-long experiment carried out by Open, the Russian Federation Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition.
The book deals with Diego Marcon’s practice through the analysis of three film and video works. Monelle (2017), Ludwig (2018), and The Parents’ Room (2020) are his most recent and complex projects, and they are all emblematic of central aspects of his production.
Edited by Adriana Varejão, Helena de Freitas, and Victor Gorgulho
Authors: Elena Crippa, Raphael Fonseca, Helena de Freitas, Victor Gorgulho and Adriana Varejão
Designed by Lorenzo Mason Studio
2025, English, softcover, 24 x 32 cm, 152 pages
ISBN 979-12-80579-58-4
Paula Rego and Adriana Varejão. Between Your Teeth, published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition held at CAM – Gulbenkian in Lisbon, explores convergences in the work of Paula Rego (Lisbon, 1935 – London, 2022) and Adriana Varejão (Rio de Janeiro, 1964), although they belong to different generations and come from different backgrounds.
Curated by Adriana Varejão, Helena de Freitas, and Victor Gorgulho, the exhibition, which presents nearly 80 works—including paintings, engravings, sculptures, and installations—is divided into thirteen thematic rooms. The long conversation between the three curators, which forms the main text of the catalogue, reflects the structure of the exhibition, addressing the different thematic nodes and revealing the conceptual and methodological process that guided the selection of works.
The two essays by Raphael Fonseca and Elena Crippa, which complete the catalogue, offer further insights, by highlighting several similarities in the practice of the two artists from a critical perspective.
The title—Between Your Teeth—is a line taken from the 1974 Poemas aos homens do nosso tempo (Poems to the men of our time) by the Brazilian poet and novelist, Hilda Hilst, in a clear allusion to the dictatorial regime that had begun in Brazil in the previous decade. Hilst describes and criticises the power associated to greed, conquest, profit and exploitation. In their representations of literal and metaphorical bodies, Paula Rego and Adriana Varejão reflect on how patriarchy, colonialism and all forms of oppression mutually interact, “chewing up” people and their stories.
This is the artists’ first joint exhibition in Portugal, having already exhibited together in Rio de Janeiro (Carpintaria, 2017), when Paula Rego was still alive.
The catalogue fosters the encounter between Adriana Varejão, who has developed pioneering work in the field of postcolonial thought, and the work of Paula Rego, whose political force is developed by a productive tension between a private register and its public dimension, expanding the interpretive universe of the two artists.
Photos: Nicola Gnesi