Next Friday, to 17,30 hours, sculpture installation will be inaugurated, “Old Space, New Volume”, that arises from the challenge to the Norwegian artist Lise Wulff.
The artist was challenged to create sculptural objects that inhabit the space of Mina de São Domingos, in a relationship with the ruins of the old mining exploration, from the history of the place and the people who inhabited them.
The objective of the installation is not the historical reconstitution, or the brooding of the past, but the prism of the new inhabitants/occupants, materialized by sculptural pieces that come to inhabit an abandoned place.
MALACATE is an artistic intervention project at the São Domingos Mine that, between january 2022 and June 2023, invites the local population to join Portuguese and foreign artists to create various works of art.
Based on a transnational cooperation between Companhia Cepa Torta and the Municipality of Mértola, a Røros municipality (Norway) e Lise Wulff (Norway), intends to promote a new vision of the Mine of S.. Domingos for the action of artistic practice and the work of, with and for the local community, creating a contemporary image of the place, not erasing its industrial past, but reoccupying the different spaces with new memories and meanings.
Who is Lise Wulff ?
Visual artist who lives and works on the outskirts of Oslo, has works exhibited in Norway, Czech Republic, Romania, Serbia, among others. It develops its works together with the community and has as one of the main aspects of its work the so-called “eco-art”, which addresses issues related to ecology, using natural materials in the creation of impressive sculptural objects left in public places, or in the middle of nature, for everyone's enjoyment. She is the founder of the environmental art project The Scream from Nature (Nature's Scream), which aims to raise awareness about the relationship between humans and nature. The project forms part of the official celebration of Edvard Munch – Munch150 – and collaborates with the United Nations Environment Program.
