V-I-A | VALONGO ARTISTIC INTERVENTIONS 2022

V-I-A | Valongo Artistic Interventions is a project of artistic intervention in public space, which aims to establish dialogues between the territory and its brands, between its unique and identity heritage and the community (resident and visitor), which aims to be the guiding and intermediary thread in this communication between the universes and territories that compose the Municipality of Valongo.

Over several months, V-I-A will tour all the parishes of Valongo: Alfena, Campo, Ermesinde, Sobrado and Valongo, challenging some of the most recognized national and international urban artists to observe the marks of the territory and share their views and testimonies about them, through this unique instrument that is the Urban Art.

'A Pedreira' gives its name to the mural that the artist Mariana Duarte Santos left in Campo, the parish that still houses the Empresa das Lousas de Valongo (Valongo slate), founded in 1865 to “supply England and the United States with slate for roofs, floors, coatings and billiard stones” and which turned this Black Stone into one of the undeniable hallmarks of Valongo. The photograph that served as inspiration for the work that we can find today at the Museu da Lousa, dates from 1926 and portrays the hardness of this work to which many men and women of Valongo dedicated themselves, to whom this symbolic homage is paid.

'Dos 8 aos 80' is the mural that the duo Los Pepes Studio created in the parish of Alfena, commemorating the traditional Portuguese toy, where the colors denounce the inspiration for this work, as well as the forms and patterns of painting used to create an imaginary around the transformation station, aiming to draw a parallel with some magical place to which we associate toys... and play, because there is no right age to play, from 8 to 80.