Based on the phrase «My Body is Your Body», a reinterpretation by Rui Órfão of Ernesto de Sousa's work, the Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra launched a challenge to the artistic community, from which six new artistic projects were selected and exhibited at CAPC's headquarters between October and December 2023.

O Meu Corpo É o Teu Corpo is an inversion of the title chosen by Ernesto deSousa to group a series of actions, performances and exhibitions: O Teu Corpo É o Meu Corpo [Your Body Is My Body]. This period of the artist's work includes graphic, photographic and filmic production, poetic texts, and mixed-media works created between 1972 and 1988.

Ernesto de Sousa (Lisbon, April 18, 1921 - October 6,1988) was one of the most complex and active figures of his time, a prolific multidisciplinary artist, and an avid promoter of synergies between generations of artists from the first and second half of the 20^th century. An advocate of experimental and free artistic expression, he dedicated himself to the study, dissemination, and practice of the arts, as well as to curating, criticism, essay writing, photography, cinema, and theatre.

By proposing the celebration of the Anniversary of Robert Filliou's Art (Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra, 1974), Ernesto de Sousa anticipated the Carnation Revolution and disputed Portugal's peripheral position in Europe. The exhibition Alternativa Zero (National Gallery of Modern Art, Lisbon, 1977) summarizes his project to create a Portuguese avant-garde inaesthetic and ideological dialogue with its international counterparts.

The works presented respond to this challenge indifferent ways. In all of them, the body is highlighted as a medium for the relationship between artist and spectator.