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Thus, though community participation, based on the collaboration with a social institution (Centro Social da Paróquia da Lage (Vila Verde, Braga)) and a nursing home (Lar Maria Luisa, Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Vila Nova de Cerveira), this exhibition project starts off with the use of cotton thread in green and red – the colors that symbolize the April Revolution – to create 300 hadcrafted crocheted carnations. This flower became a symbol of the Portuguese’s struggle for freedom when a young woman offered red carnations to the military personnel, on April 25, 1974.

These carnations are attached to a steel structure installed in the form of an ascending spiral, to symbolize the positive impact of freedom on the post-25th of April generations, and the continuous and progressive fight for the promotion of freedom in society. Both a never-ending quest and an always open process that alerts to the challenges of its preservation, so that, individually, we all continue to fight for its safeguarding and its conquests – here and beyond borders.

This Installation is winner of the Call4Art Artistic Creation Contest and is part of the 50 Years of the 25th of April exhibition in Museu do Oriente, promoted by Fundação Oriente.

Exhibition Program