Bienal Art(e)facts presents an exhibition-screenplay by Beira Interior
Art(e)facts – Bienal do Conhecimento opens on July 2 the exhibition Supernatural Togetherness, which covers six locations in Fundão and Guarda, where six unprecedented projects were created by artists, architects and designers, in residencies artistic works carried out with local artisans.
Alcongosta, Janeiro de Cima, Telhado, Fundão, Famalicão da Serra and Gonçalo define the itinerary for the collective exhibition that presents the artistic projects carried out during the month of May, as part of the residency program for the inaugural edition of Art(e)facts.
As Andreia Garcia, Artistic Director and Curator of the Bienal explains, the exhibition’s script “mirrors the various dialogues and scenarios that welcomed them, so the invitation to visit suggests paying attention to the places that hold the memory and experience of immersion and of permanence”.
The residencies and the creation of the projects brought together six artists and collectives, Portuguese and foreign, with artisans who work the traditional arts of chestnut basketwork and wicker basketwork, weaving and pottery.
In addition to valuing crafts through contemporary creation, the Bienal Art(e)facts proposed to participants the application of digital fabrication and the resources of FAB LAB Aldeias do Xisto to the preservation of knowledge and “knowing how to do” the people of Beira Interior. Because, as the curator points out, “with globalization, rural areas have become outskirts of cities and we now see that, with the aging of the population, the legacy of ancestral knowledge is in danger”.
The exhibition will be open until September 9th and the projects will be able to be visited in installations in the craft workshops that housed the residences, in vacant buildings, and public spaces in the various locations.
From Casa das Tecedeiras, in the historic village of Janeiro de Cima, passing by Casa do Barro do Telhado and workshops in Famalicão da Serra and Gonçalo, where ancestral arts are kept alive, to the centers of Alcongosta and the city of Fundão, the exhibition provides a roadmap between the past and the future of the region.
