As part of the annual program of the Guimarães House of Memory, A Oficina is offering the Roundtable activity “And yet, they move: public sculpture in Guimarães” | Mónica Faria, José Pastor, Sónia Moura, and Mónica Guimarães.

 

Following the roundtable of the same title, held on March 8th of this year, and the visit to the “Paths around” area, held on July 19th, we will return for the second roundtable to share the knowledge we gained throughout the program.

 

Participants: “Oficina” with Monica Faria.

Guests: José Pastor, Sônia Moura, and Monica Guimarães.
Hosting Institution: Oficina, House of Memory

Free entry, subject to available capacity.

 

. The activity “Paths around: Mónica Faria and guests” took place on July 19th and offered a walk around the public sculptures in Guimarães.

The public sculptures found in the city of Guimarães are landmarks that transcend physical space and connect directly to memory, history, and the figures who have shaped local and, in some cases, even national culture. The participants of this meeting were invited to walk around them on a tour of the city together. of works, the body or forms – both in their physical and symbolic form – that emerge as a visual representation of events or personalities that have left profound marks on people and the territory.

. The roundtable discussion And yet, they move: public sculpture in Guimarães, featuring Marta Lima, Maria Manuel Oliveira, Jorge Palinhos, and Fátima Ferreira, and moderated by Mónica Faria, took place on March 8th at 4 pm at the Casa da Memória, where sculptor Marta Lima highlighted her practice of making and reflecting on public sculpture. Maria Manuel Oliveira, 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, recalled the relocation of the statues that once stood in Largo do Toural and questioned the relationship that public sculpture occupies, drawing on the example of the urban redevelopment of Largo do Toural in Guimarães. Jorge Palinhos, writer, researcher, and professor at the Escola Superior Artística do Porto and the Escola The Coimbra Higher Education Institute, based on the statues that occupied Praça da República in Porto, questioned 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, recalled the historical perspective, memory, and time as determinants in the relationship between discourse and its representations.

 

Annual Memory Program

Throughout the year, through various activities, the House of Memory deepens knowledge of Guimarães’ rich sculptural heritage in public spaces. In a unique dialogue with the sculptural pieces, the place they occupy, and the people who observe them, we all become permanent witnesses to a history that is not only that which is told in books, but also that which 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 dos Reis that strolled throughout the city: matter It brings together ideas, but the signifiers move with granite and bronze.

This annual program features our Lab2PT researchers, Mónica Faria, as coordinator, and Fátima Moura Ferreira and Maria Manuel Oliveira as guests.

 

More information: HERE