The Viveiro de Grandachão, in Rio Frio, Arcos de Valdevez, which had been deactivated for several years, became the stage for an artistic intervention as part of the Landscape Gallery project. This long-duration artistic residency brought several creators to the Território de Santa Cruz, in the western zone of the municipality, with the aim of bringing art closer to the local population and reinterpreting the landscape, memory, and identity of the region.
Documentary photographer Lara Jacinto was the artist responsible for the intervention at the former forest nursery. The creator installed a triptych of images that visually integrates with the local vegetation, the result of research into how inhabitants relate to the territory surrounding them. Lara explained that the process was not limited to documenting, but rather sought to construct more abstract small visual narratives, moving away from a merely descriptive approach.
The work at the nursery was not isolated, as the same photographic investigation extended to ten deactivated bus stops along the road between Cachamundinho and Senharei. This extension reinforces the guiding thread of the project, which consists of looking at abandoned or forgotten infrastructures as starting points for reflection on the territory.
The case of the Viveiro de Grandachão joins other Landscape Gallery interventions in the Território de Santa Cruz, such as an experimental music performance held in the Miranda Forest.
