For Carlos Bunga (Porto, 1976), a Portuguese artist living in Barcelona, the first home is "pregnancy." He explains this in the major exhibition at the Modern Art Center of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon dedicates until March 30th to it, entitled To inhabit contradiction. The maternal womb is "an organic space, that breathes, that protects, that contrasts with the hostile world," says the artist. But the circumstances of her mother's pregnancy were not simple; they were marked by her escape from war-torn Angola. Her mother went into exile pregnant, with a two-year-old daughter in tow and a bag of photographs to "preserve her memories." Upon arriving in Portugal, they lived in a prison converted into a shelter for refugees and poor families, and later in a temporary neighborhood that lasted longer than expected. Bunga's mother was illiterate, and to support her family, she worked as a prostitute.