2017 // Performance-installation // Luz Museum, Aldeia da Luz, Portugal
Installation and Performance by Yuri Pirondi
On the 2002 the old village of Aldeia da Luz was submerged by water after the enlargement of the Alqueva Dam reservoir.
Some inhabitants decided to do not live in the new village and others stayed.
We have been invited by Museu da Luz for an art residency with the aim to create a piece based on the memories of the sunken village.
The idea started from the name of the village, “Luz” that translated in English means “Light”.
With the help of the Freguesia da Luz we manage to use materials that were originally from the old village.
We imagined a last dinner ate at the old village before the evacuation, everyone left in rush abandoning the rest of the meal on the table. As the table came closer we find out what was left from last supper at the old village.
The aim was to bring back a memory, a simple dinner made of traditional Alentejano bread and wine where everyone from the area could recognize.
We explored aesthetically the idea of memory rather than concentrate on a particular historical moment.
To do so we added to the installation a luminescent material that create a sort of aura that add some mystery and symbolise a new “light” for the village.
Installation and Performance by Yuri Pirondi
On the 2002 the old village of Aldeia da Luz was submerged by water after the enlargement of the Alqueva Dam reservoir.
Some inhabitants decided to do not live in the new village and others stayed.
We have been invited by Museu da Luz for an art residency with the aim to create a piece based on the memories of the sunken village.
The idea started from the name of the village, “Luz” that translated in English means “Light”.
With the help of the Freguesia da Luz we manage to use materials that were originally from the old village.
We imagined a last dinner ate at the old village before the evacuation, everyone left in rush abandoning the rest of the meal on the table. As the table came closer we find out what was left from last supper at the old village.
The aim was to bring back a memory, a simple dinner made of traditional Alentejano bread and wine where everyone from the area could recognize.
We explored aesthetically the idea of memory rather than concentrate on a particular historical moment.
To do so we added to the installation a luminescent material that create a sort of aura that add some mystery and symbolise a new “light” for the village.