In Portugal, on 25 April 1974, soldiers took to the streets and ousted a forty-eight year long fascist dictatorial regime that had proudly stood alone in the context of democratic Europe, and closed the chapter of the colonial war in Africa that had been going on since 1961. The machine guns that the soldiers wielded that day didn’t fire bullets, but were filled with red carnations offered by the people who filled the squares.
This is a transdisciplinary, large-scale, and immersive exhibition project that portrays through art the Portuguese social, political, and cultural context in the period between the 1920s and 1970s.
This exhibition/installation will display various documents, from photographic archives, books, posters, graphic material, news items from public television archives, documentary films and pieces by visual artists. This project will be supported and activated by a parallel programme of thought and performance.
Curated by Paulo Mendes
