BETWEEN TIMES AND PLACES
10 Years of creative hosting in Lafões

Retrospective exhibition
Oliveira de Frades Municipal Museum
November 23rd – December 31st, 2023

Opening: 06:00pm

Tuesday to Friday: 09:00am – 12:30pm, 02:00pm – 05:30pm
Saturday and Sunday: 02:00pm – 05:30pm

Curators: Binaural Nodar and Master’s Degree of Contemporary Artistic Creation, University of Aveiro (MCAC/UA)
Production: Municipality of Oliveira de Frades and Binaural Nodar.

It was the spring of 2011 when the MCAC/UA teachers and students drove to the rural area of Lafões for the first time, in co-production with Binaural Nodar, to foster a context of site-specific artistic development and articulation with local communities. Since then, every year for four days, the concept of hosting students in a rural context has been deepened, fostering a sense of empathy with rural places, artistic practices in communion with the landscape and its memories and the discovery of sound as a crucial element of reality and as a plastic layer that can be used in multiple ways in the context of contemporary art.

The retrospective exhibition “Between times and places: 10 years of creative hosting in Lafões” and its accompanying catalog, establish a sensitive journey between “times”, the years from 2011 to 2021, and places, the multiple localities of the three municipalities of Lafões. This journey is enriched by two audiovisual works created by Binaural Nodar based on legends and stories from the municipality of Oliveira de Frades: “How to represent the legends of Oliveira de Frades?” and “Submerged memory (an audiovisual essay)”.

Credits:

Exhibition coordination: Paulo Bernardino and Luís Gomes da Costa
Original photographs: Luís Gomes da Costa, Manuela Barile, Liliana Silva, Nely Ferreira, Rute Sousa, Alba Boscà, Paulo Bernardino, Graça Magalhães, Kátia Sá, Raquel Balsa, Susana Vasconcelos, Tiago Restrivo
Author of the audiovisual works: Luís Costa
Texts by Paulo Bernardino, Luís Gomes da Costa, Graça Magalhães, Pedro Bessa, Sérgio Eliseu, Kátia Sá, Liliana Silva and Manuela Barile
Catalog design: Liliana Silva
Exhibition set-up: Ana Margarida Ferreira, Liliana Silva and Luis Costa

Binaural Nodar is a cultural organization supported by the Portuguese Government – Culture | Directorate-General for the Arts.