‘The Images that Lokk at Us’ is curated by Marlene Oliveira and Perfecto Cuadrado and brings together photographs taken between 1949 and 1952, in a context of artistic, political and existential unrest for the author, before his departure for Brazil, where he lived until his death in 2019.

The Cupertino de Miranda Foundation presents this collection of the artist's work, which reveals the images captured by his lens, taking visitors back more than 50 years and transporting them to the aesthetic imagination of surrealist photography, while highlighting his mastery of the camera.

The exhibition, which was visited by the Mayor of Famalicão, Mário Passos, and inaugurated by the Secretary of State for Culture, Alberto Santos, is the first in a series of initiatives promoted by the Cupertino de Miranda Foundation, in partnership with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Moreira Salles Institute (Brazil), to commemorate the centenary of Fernando Lemos' birth.

The initiatives will continue until next year and include a series of talks to disseminate knowledge about the artist's life and work, the screening of a documentary by Jorge Silva Melo about Fernando Lemos, and the dissemination of his poetry via radio and a podcast. This exhibition can be visited until 13 September at the Portuguese Surrealism Centre, in the permanent exhibition hall of the Cupertino de Miranda Foundation, in Vila Nova de Famalicão.