The exhibition “Places of Sophia” was inaugurated last Saturday, the 14th of September, at the Centro Cultural de Lagos.
This is a photography exhibition by the authors António Jorge Silva, Duarte Belo and Pedro Tropa, who were invited and challenged to revisit Sophia's places, adding to them, with their own look and different poetics, other aspects and truths and embodying an unprecedented reading of the poetess.
Curated by Federico Bertolazzi and José Manuel dos Santos, this exhibition is the first activity of the official commemorative program to take place in Lagos.
Guilherme d' Oliveira Martins, President of the Grand Council of the National Culture Center, Luis Faro Ramos, president of Instituto Camões, Federico Bertolazzi, member of the organizing committee of the program commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Maria Calado, president of the Board of the National Culture Center, and Hugo Pereira, mayor of Lagos , were some of the individuals present.
In his speech, Guilherme d'Oliveira Martins recalled that the commemorative program is developed around three major hubs: Porto (where Sophia was born), Lisbon (where she lived) and Lagos (where the author had a holiday home and discovered the “Mediterranean bathed by the Atlantic”).
Oliveira Martins also highlighted some of the characteristic features of Sophia's work, including the strong connection between creation, literature, art, nature, life and people, as well as the dimension of space.
Considering Sophia as an absolutely fundamental reference not only in Portuguese culture, but also in terms of citizenship, the president of the Grand Council of the National Culture Center also recalled that the writer was the deputy of the Constituent Assembly responsible for the most important text ever produced on law. the culture.
Federico Bertolazzi referred to Lagos as the city where Sophia lived a kind of epiphany, not only in terms of poetry, but in her relationship with space and things, recalling that it was with Teixeira de Pascoaes that Sophia learned how to make the landscape a language.
The member of the organizing committee of the program commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, who is also one of the exhibition's curators, explained that the invitation addressed to the three authors to photograph this search process was based on the exhibition. of exactness, as Sophia did with words.
Hugo Pereira, Mayor of Lagos, and Sara Coelho, Councilor for Culture, thanked and welcomed the opportunity to place Lagos in the “Places of Sophia”, that is, in the official centenary commemorations, alongside Lisbon and Harbor.
The exhibition, which brings together around 65 photographs representing Sophia's most familiar environments, will be on display to be visited and appreciated at the Lagos Cultural Center until the next 26th of October.
On October 3, there will be another reason to return to the Cultural Centre, a space that will host the International Colloquium “Lagos where I reinvented the world” dedicated to Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and which is part of the centenary's official program.
In parallel and throughout the year, the Municipality of Lagos, in partnership with the Municipality of Loulé, has been promoting local programming dedicated to Sophia de Mello Breyner, which you can follow through the usual municipal communication channels.
The next event will take place on September 28, at the Centro Cultural de Lagos, with “Sul de Sophia”, an audiovisual performance by Grafonola Voadora & Napoleão Mira, which aims to illustrate the “South” of Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, highlighting the importance that the Algarve had in his work.
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