Exhibition.04

Impermanência, ou, da Memória da Vida de Brandeiro

Luís Miguel Portela Portugal, 2018

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In the parish of Gave, impermanence has always been a constant. Long before immigration, transhumance already pushed its people away, those who climbed the mountain each summer to their high pastures to live, farm, graze livestock. But then everything changed. The road made the path easier and the transhumance unnecessary. The last brandeiros still take their herds up, but they are only a memory of that hard life that today is celebrated every year in the grasslands of Aveleira. It is that memory that this project aims to portray.

• Date: 30 July / 31 August 2018
• Location: Praça da República, nº 169

Luís Miguel Portela

Born in Loulé, 1979. Moved to Lisbon in 1997 to study Economics, making a career in the field. In 2009, however, he decides to change his life to devote himself to his great passions: traveling, writing and photography. Between 2013 and 2016 he completed a round the world trip, without flying, which he documents photographically. On his return to Lisbon he enrolls in the ETIC photography course, finished in 2017.