ViViFiCAR

The ViViFiCAR project embraces the concepts of ‘living and staying’ as guiding axes for immersive encounters between artists and local communities based on participatory creative strategies.

In 2025, Mêda, Torre de Moncorvo, and Sabrosa hosted the Encontros Vivos, which involved three artists in artistic residencies in each municipality. The artists lived in the homes of local ambassadors, and the creative process was accompanied by a team of moderators—Gabriela Vaz-Pinheiro, Jayne Dyer, and Virgílio Ferreira—and supported by local mediators.

From Augusto Brázio’s lens emerges a body of work that reinforces the sense of human belonging within the surrounding ecosystem of Torre de Moncorvo. In James Newitt’s video installation, mining activity is examined as a metaphor—referencing past, present, and future—while alluding to everything that remains beyond the reach of the distant gaze in Mêda.  In Lara Jacinto's project, the portrait emerges with a dizzying magnetism that suggests the possibility of a tangible relationship with the experience of the other. The other is here, the immigrant, who recounts the history of a geography strongly marked by emigration.