SOUNDWALK: Where were(n't) they?
1. Archive: memories and absences
Unpacking the archive to reorder what is visible. A puzzle of memories and absences, from which emerge stories of poverty and double shifts — accounts History left untold.
Location: Arquivo Municipal de Braga
2. The work of Mothers and social roles
“One learned to be a woman!” Between embroidery, songs, and advice, bodies and futures were shaped, duties and chores instilled: silent rituals of an invisible bridal trousseau.
Location: Largo Senhora-a-Branca
3. Seclusion of the Converted (and the silenced)
From segregation to social confinement, only silences and erased dreams remain. From a single portrait, a fictional letter is written to a woman ahead of her time, in a dialogue between voices that never met.
Location: Recolhimento das Convertidas
4. Family portrait: a staging
Carefully planned gestures and poses reveal as much about the photographer as about the photographed. What stories and social patterns lie hidden behind such meticulous staging?
Location: Largo de Barão São Martinho - Casa Pelicano
5. Marriage
"The bells of Braga Cathedral all ring to passion: the first plays fado, the second plays Malhão." How many memories do a city’s squares and gardens hold? Between promises and conquests of freedom, how many rose bushes have been grafted?
Location: Jardim de Santa Bárbara
6. Education and rural life
Who went to study, and why? “The poor couldn’t attend those schools.” From childhoods of survival to subsistence farming, multiple voices share the dream of having studied. In contrast, they recount their relationship with the city when bringing their products to sell.
Location: Convento do Carmo / Colégio Dublin
7. From caregiver to rector
A lullaby sets the tone for the stories of those who cared for other people’s children. Lives intertwined with care, work, and silencing. Invisible (and unpaid) gestures that sustain families and communities, shaping the civic participation of those who care.
Location: Rua de Nossa Sra. do Leite
8. University and the revolution
As stories of small victories and transgressions are shared, one hears the steps of the revolution approaching —the city of carnations and of the university—and recounts the doors that that April opened for Braga.
Location: Largo do Paço