Cova da Moura

Hands of Isabel, Cova da Moura, Lisbon, 2014 Realized with
participation of children from Cova da Moura neighbourhood 

The part of the project, realized in Lisbon neighborhood Cova da Moura was based on large scale murals and prints installed on wall. The themes of these paintings were based mostly on imagery of a daily life in Capeverdes. The aim was - especially for a younger generation, children of immigrants from Capeverdes - to keep a contact with the cultural and social reality in a country of their roots. In some of the paintings, children participated in a creation, adding their own images, based on experience, or imagination of the Cape Verde reality.

Hands of Sr. Martinho, Cova da Moura, Lisbon, 2014.
Sr. Martinho is an amateur artist from the neighbourhood. He is
the one, who build the first wooden boat used in the traditional
celebration Kola San Jon, the feast that became national heritage.

The project was possible thanks to the generous help of Moinho da Juventude, a cultural association of Cova da Moura.

3,5, Cova da Moura, Lisbon, 2014
The painting portrays members of Isabel's family, two women,
one teenage girl and one small girl, all living in a remote rural
area of Island of Santiago. All what they need for living they
plant, or bring to their house on their heads. 

Mariazinha, Cova da Moura, Lisbon, 2014
Painting portrays Mariazinha, a woman from Santiago island
bringing home a bag of corn.

Isabel&Mariazinha, Cova da Moura, Lisbon, 2014
Mariazinha helps to Isabel, her mother, to find a right and
comfortable spot to hold three ceramic plates on her head.
The painting is based on still from the documentary movie
The hands of Trás di Munti.

Carrinhas, Cova da Moura, Lisbon, 2014,
The painting was created with participation of Cova da Moura
teenagers. It shows the very typical equivalent of public transport
in Cape Verdes: private vans and pick ups that usually hold a
personalized image/logo on their back. In this mural, teenagers
picked their own image for the car's design instead.