EXHIBITION

Audiovisual abstractions extracted from the hybrid documentary project Archaeologies of Destruction, about the housing crisis in Portugal.

It began with the forced evictions and demolitions in the 2.º Torrão neighborhood in Trafaria, and an educational archaeology activity carried out with the neighborhood’s children, which resulted in an archaeological exhibition at the National Museum of Natural History and Science in Lisbon.

The installation listens to what survives demolition — fragments of memory, echoes of childhood and of the earth. Composed of 360-degree video, field recordings, and live-processed sounds in abandoned buildings, it traverses the contrasts of the urban landscape and the excess of neglect. It proposes a sensory archaeology of the present — a territory where sound replaces the body and inhabits emptiness as a political act.