As part of the annual program of the Guimarães House of Memory, A Oficina proposes the activity Paths around | Mónica Faria and guests.

The public sculptures that we find in the city of Guimarães are landmarks that transcend the physical space and that connect directly to memory, history and the figures that shaped local and, in some cases, even national culture. Walking around them is what we propose to the participants of this meeting, on a tour of the city alongside works, the body or the shapes – both in their physical and symbolic form – that emerge as a visual representation of events or personalities that left deep marks on people and the territory.

Free participation for all ages, up to the limit of available capacity. Departure from the Guimarães House of Memory.

 

This event follows And yet, they move: public sculpture in Guimarães, with Marta Lima, Maria Manuel Oliveira, Jorge Palinhos and Fátima Ferreira, and moderated by Mónica Faria, which took place on March 8:

On March 8, at 4 pm, Casa da Memória hosted the round table “And yet, they move: public sculpture in Guimarães”, where Marta Lima, a sculptor, highlights her practice of making and thinking about public sculpture. Maria Manuel Oliveira, an architect, researcher and associate professor with tenure at the School of Architecture, Art and Design of the University of Minho as a specialist in the field of intervention in built heritage, recalls the relocation of the statues that existed in Largo do Toural and questions the relationship that public sculpture occupies based on the example of the urban requalification of Largo do Toural in Guimarães. Jorge Palinhos, writer, researcher and professor at the Escola Superior Artística do Porto and the Escola Superior de Educação de Coimbra, based on the statues that occupied Praça da República in Porto, questions the validity of past, present and future statues. Fátima Moura Ferreira, historian and associate professor at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Minho, recalls the historical perspective, memory and time as determining factors in the relationship between discourse and its representations.

Annual memory program

Throughout the year, in various activities, the Casa da Memória will deepen knowledge of Guimarães’ rich sculptural heritage in public spaces. In a unique dialogue with the sculptures, with the place they occupy and with the people who observe them, we all become permanent witnesses of a story that is not only the one told in books, but also the one that is lived daily and experienced in common spaces. This is a program that also reminds us that a physical presence comes and goes with the changing times, like a D. Afonso Henriques sculpted by Soares do Reis that walked through the entire city: the material brings together the ideas, but the signifiers move with the granite and bronze.

 

 

Our Lab2PT researchers, Mónica Faria, as coordinator and Fátima Moura Ferreira and Maria Manuel Oliveira as guests, take part in this annual program.

 

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