TWO BROTHERLY HILLS
An audiovisual “ethno-poeisis” essay, linking local accounts of two mountains located around three hundred kilometers apart: Pico Sacro, in the municipality of Boqueixón (near Santiago de Compostela, in the Galician province of A Coruña) and Monte de São Macário, in the municipality of São Pedro do Sul (in the Portuguese region of Viseu Dão Lafões). Both mountains have links to saints from faraway lands, Alexandria and Jerusalem, and are symbolically associated with aspects of human brain health. The essay attempts to respond artistically to an intuition: that there is an “invisible” process mobilizing brotherhood between certain hills, the result of a cross-combination of geology, morphology, meteorology, psychology, culture and sacredness.
After a series of sound and audiovisual collections carried out in December on the two hills, the mixed-media exhibition will be created as part of the artist residency. The final installation will be presented at Lafões Cult Lab in due course, after an initial presentation on January 20th, as part of the Doctoral Program in Artistic Creation at the University of Aveiro.
The artist would like to thank Lana Pías Peleteiro and Juan Pías Peleteiro in Santiago de Compostela for their collaboration on the project, as well as José Almeida (father) and José Almeida (son) in São Pedro do Sul.