Teresinha Soares, the Brazilian artist whose paintings and installations from the 1960s and ’70s challenged gendered-conventions of how women were both treated in Brazilian society and depicted throughout art history, died on March 31 in Belo Horizonte. She was 99 years old.

She had been hospitalized after breaking her femur and never recovered, according to her daughter, artist Valeska Soares, as reported by Brazilian newspaper Estado de Minas.

“Teresinha Soares leaves a legacy that, in the present, keeps open investigations into desire, eroticism, and expression,” the artist’s gallery, Gomide & Co., wrote on Instagram, adding that her body of work “made a decisive contribution to discussions on the body, desire, and subjectivity in Brazilian art.”