Rural Collective Memories
Binaural Nodar and the Municipality of Castro Daire, through its municipal library and within the scope of the Memória sobre Rodas project, will host from May 17th until the end of October 2021, a long creative residency of public art in the parishes of Mões and Almofala. The creative residency is entitled “Rural Collective Memories”, developed by two Spanish artists from the Valencian community, Alba Boscà and Mar Roca Macián, both finalist students of the Fine Arts course at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, who were in Portugal under the of an Erasmus+ European internship, for the same course.
Throughout their stay in military lands, the artists developed plastic interventions in public spaces in rural villages, through participatory methodologies that promote the identification by the populations of the creations and their connection to aspects of the local collective memory, namely agricultural and pastoral activities. , important events and personalities, desires and expectations and other elements of the local cultural heritage.
Alba Boscà I Carrió (b.1996) is a visual artist born in Valencia (Spain), graduated in Fine Arts from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. As a visual artist, Carrió has a particular interest in oil painting and themes such as muralism. Her work is focused on the representational portrayal of everyday life. As for muralism, its purpose involves the connection between painting, its context and the diffusion of boundaries between interior and exterior, public and private. The artist has already participated in exhibitions, such as: The collective exhibition Anatomic Body Painting (Faculty of Medicine, Valencia, 2018), she has also exhibited at the Confusion festival (Benimalet, Valencia, 2019), as well as presented a series of illustrations in an exhibition organized from the University of Guanajuato LaMuerte y Lo Humano (Guanajuato, Mexico, 2019). She has an interest in artistic meditation, having participated in an artistic workshop for a shelter for displaced people (San Juan de Dios, Valencia, 2018). Finally, she organized a multidisciplinary children’s workshop in Cabanyal, Valencia.
Mar Roca Macián (b.1998) is a multidisciplinary artist with a particular interest in painting, having graduated in Fine Arts from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Her training also includes the National and International Congress of Teaching and University Service APS (2018); Congress of Norms and Dissent Rethinking citizenship from the body (2019); Additionally, the artist speaks four languages: Spanish, Valencian, English and French; Her professional experience includes: APECCV social circus workshop (2017); Artistic meditation workshop SAN JUAN DE DIOS (2018); Children’s artistic workshop CSOA LA FUSTERIA (2019).