Escombreiras
From May 11 to June 11, 2023, the MHNC-UP hosts, at the Ferreira da Silva Laboratory, the exhibition Escombreiras exhibition organized by the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto and by i2ADS – Institute of Research in Art, Design and Society.
As a final presentation of the project SHS – Soil health surrounding former mining areas: characterization, risk analysis, and intervention (NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000056), the results of five artistic research residencies are presented:
- Susana Soares Pinto focused on the former mining area of Pejão (Castelo de Paiva), in the vicinity of Cavalete do Fojo, where, together with the community and over the course of two years, an experimental remediation intervention was carried out;
- Carla Cruz, Cláudia Lopes and Miguel Leal worked mainly around the territory of the Arouca Geopark by looking into the residues, whether architectural or political-poetic, left in the landscape and in the bodies and memory of the people and the land;
- Graciela Machado started her journey between mining spaces, science and family eidos located on the shores of Europe in the Minas de Regoufe / Poça da Cadela mining complex;
- and Domingos Loureiro, examined mining occupation, especially wolfram, in Parque das Serras do Porto, and developed an artistic intervention suggesting the valorization of the symbolic as an action to recover the territory and the landscape.