WINDOWS OF YESTERYEAR
Artist Residency
Ana Margarida Ferreira
July 17 to 31, 2023
Nogueira de Côta (Viseu)
A production of Binaural Nodar, in collaboration with the Social, Sports, Recreational and Cultural Association of Nogueira de Côta and the Civil Parish Council of Côta and financial support from the Municipality of Viseu.
The project “Janelas de Outrora” (“Windows of yesteryear”) by Ana Margarida Ferreira, starts from the methodology of re-enacting a memory. Through photography, drawing and sound, the artist seeks to re-live a memory in the mind, something impossible due to the inevitable constant reinterpretation. A person never wears the same clothes the same way twice, never watches a movie the same way twice, never irons the same way twice… and so on. It is not possible to repeat an action without the memory of the previous experience. Layer after layer, the experience changes, even if it is millimetrically, and we could say that the definitive arbiter/jury would be the new technologies, through photography or video, which makes it more interesting to approach different eras, when these tools were not so easily available. Ana Margarida Ferreira thus seeks to take the viewer on a search without return, the search for the initial/factual layer of memory.
Ana Margarida Ferreira is a young contemporary artist with family roots in the village of Nogueira de Côta, in the municipality of Viseu and who attends the second year of the Master in Contemporary Artistic Creation at the University of Aveiro, within the scope of which she carries out an internship with Binaural Nodar. The artist has presented her polysemic work (visual arts, writing, media, sound, etc.) in the context of collective exhibitions developed in an academic environment.