Coisa-ponta, 2026

a duet by
Ana Rita Teodoro & Márcia Lança

One thing right plus one ting wrong

When we were little, we skinned both our knees; with our knees skinned, we climbed a very tall staircase, taller than the pine tree, taller than the cypress. We carried on climbing, stairs that turned into towers, towers that turned into palaces. It seemed as though spring was playing a trick on us. So we decided that from then on we would never lie again; from then on we would never be ourselves again. Then we fell from high to low, to where there was nowhere lower, and we screamed! We screamed for years, an old, mouldy scream, until a cricket—a friend of the scream—came out of our mouths. We looked at it and asked: when will the snow come? When will time run out? When will the festivities begin? It replied: chirp chirp.

Coisa-Ponta stems from a long-standing bond between Ana Rita Teodoro and Márcia Lança: back in 1999, when they first saw surrealist art together. This event opened a fascinating window, leading them to embark on an artistic practice guided by a deliberate suspension of intention as a means of accessing the unimaginable. Surrealism also afforded them a multifaceted space that no single discipline could provide on its own — being a surrealist is a serious matter.

In this work, they seek to bring their ethical and aesthetic affinity into dialogue with surrealist techniques and processes. By activating their modes of practice as a compositional strategy — the interweaving of materials, the deactivation of conscious action, the bringing together of things that would, at first glance, be separate — Coisa-Ponta creates a disparate space where the sensible and the nonsensical operate as random queens.

In this ongoing project, we set out to reflect on and question what it means to be a surrealist woman in 2026, and how this legacy continues to resonate and transform contemporary artistic practices.

— Ana Rita Teodoro and Márcia Lança

© Violena Ampudia

© Violena Ampudia

"Woman with egg", 1957, Leonora Carrington

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