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Jardim da Liberdade, Santarém

Pedrita Studio

Portugal, 2024

Artwork created for the Municipality of Santarém to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 25th of April Revolution.

For this commemoration, Pedrita Studio represented the anonymous people who, in addition to all the key symbols and characters of the movement, filled the streets on that and other days where, due to the Carnation Revolution, freedom can now be exercised and celebrated. 25 April Always, forever. Every day. It is a people – free, like us today – who are represented in the piece. A close-up based on a photograph by Alfredo Cunha, in which a crowd demonstrates freely in support of the Fifth Provisional Government.

The anonymous faces of the populace in the revolution take shape in the composition made up of end-of-line industrial ceramic tiles created by Pedrita Studio. An assortment of patterns, textures, and colours – representative of an industry that democratised the use of tiles as wall cladding and which flourished in the post-25 April period – combine to reveal, from a distance (both temporal and physical), random characters representative of all the anonymous people who, until today, still gather freely in the streets for democracy in Portugal. Free, always.

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Photography: photo credits: Francisca Siza

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