Presentation of the book and opening of the exhibition – Vila do Conde
The second presentation of the book and the opening of the exhibition Rostos da Maré, Vidas em Rede between Matosinhos, Vila do Conde and Póvoa de Varzim is scheduled for Thursday, July 7, at 5 pm, at the Vila do Conde Memory Center.
It is the sea that brings them to this book. Dozens of citizens, inhabitants of Matosinhos, Vila do Conde and Póvoa de Varzim agreed to tell their life stories for a project that, with them, draws a route through the interdependencies – family, personal, professional – that fishing generated. , mainly in the last century, in these three municipalities. Initiative of the Local Action Group - North Coast Coastal LAG of the Porto Metropolitan Area, funded by the North Regional Operational Program 2020, Rostos da Maré, Lives in a network between Matosinhos, Vila do Conde and Póvoa de Varzim was designed by Bind'ó Peixe - Associação Cultural and co-produced by this organization and by ESMAD - Escola Superior de Media, Artes e Design do Instituto Politécnico do Porto, which will edit the work.
There are 21 stories – some unique, others of couples, or of siblings, in a total of 37 people – made known in this book. In addition to it, the project includes two other components: a photographic exhibition, which will circulate through the three municipalities, and which is based on studio portraits of these Rostos da Maré made by five photographers - Helena Flores, Joana Dionísio, Luís Ribeiro, Olívia da Silva and Sérgio Rolando; and an audiovisual creation by Tânia Dinis (image manipulation) and Miguel Pipa (sound design), based on the interviewees' personal files and the audio recording of the conversations. This will be presented at the launch of the work.
Edited by Abel Coentrão, journalist and president of Bind'ó Peixe, the book Rostos da Maré thus combines contemporary photographic work, photographs shared by the participants and texts resulting from long interviews carried out by journalists Ângelo T. Marques (Póvoa de Varzim), David Mandim (Vila do Conde) and Luísa Pinto (Matosinhos). There are more than 300 pages that bring to light biographies of people who have an identity normally linked to their place of birth, but who, due to life choices often linked to urban development and fishing throughout the 20th century, in this region, ended up for building affections and relationships that were entangled across different territories.
The diffusion, in the three municipalities, of surnames such as Fangueiro, Fortunato, Torrão, or da Mata, of nicknames such as Camaços or São Benta (to cite just a few examples) is a current mark of the result of these navigations; of crossings and family ties fed by the seasonal rhythms of sardine fishing; mobility facilitated by a train line, from Porto to Senhora da Hora, which is now a metro line. And, in a society undergoing rapid change, in which fishing no longer has the social weight it once had in these communities, we also wanted to include in this work stories of men and women who, although far from a maritime daily life, still bring a lot of sea to the your voice.
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