The exhibition brings together work by Chillida Leku as a project partner. The exhibition presents photographic and audiovisual records of the actions undertaken in 2024, both at the museum and in the Portuguese pilot territory, in the municipalities of Idanha-a-Nova, Oleiros, Pedrógão Grande, Proença-a-Nova, and Sertã. Chillida Leku’s participation has been coordinated through the Education […]
The exhibition brings together work by Chillida Leku as a project partner. The exhibition presents photographic and audiovisual records of the actions undertaken in 2024, both at the museum and in the Portuguese pilot territory, in the municipalities of Idanha-a-Nova, Oleiros, Pedrógão Grande, Proença-a-Nova, and Sertã. Chillida Leku’s participation has been coordinated through the Education Department, with the aim of designing a mediation programme that allows processes to be shared and knowledge to be transferred through the displacement of contexts.
The photographs were taken by the artist Nagore Legarreta, whose artistic sensitivity allows the images to transcend mere documentary record. The photographer offers both an artistic and personal perspective on the project. Far from functioning as a simple record of actions, her images invite viewers to look beyond what is visible, capturing the energy and intensity that run through the project. Through her sensitivity, the photographs reveal the involvement of the artistic community and the human and collective dimension of the work, becoming a visual narrative that interprets and amplifies the lived experience.
Meanwhile, Beñat Iturrioz’s contribution through the project’s summary video offers an equally delicate and personal reading. More than a document or record of the actions carried out, his work constructs a poetic gaze that captures the rhythms, atmospheres, and gestures that define the collective experience. The audiovisual piece synthesises the energy of what took place and becomes a work that accompanies, interprets, and extends the experience over time, offering a visual memory that connects the visible with the emotional.
The exhibition highlights the importance of cultural mediation as a process in constant transformation and attentive to the voices of the community. Mediation invites us to think about relational ways of inhabiting the world, bringing works of art into dialogue with their surroundings, the present moment, and the community that inhabits them.
The main challenge for the participating artists was to reposition their artistic mediation practices, transferring them from the context of Chillida Leku—a natural setting that is located within an urban and industrial environment—to a different geographical framework: a territory shaped by rurality, increasing depopulation, and the effects of the climate crisis
Through the synergies generated, the project has had a positive impact on the land. Additionally, the project demonstrated that artistic and cultural mediation practices can be repositioned and recontextualised while also contributing new ways of understanding, activating, and transforming the territory for more sustainable futures.
