TWO BROTHERLY HILLS
A mixed-media work by Luís Costa
We present an interview with Luís Costa, in the context of his recent artwork “Two Brotherly Hills”, presented on January 26th at the gallery of the Mestre Hélder Castanheira auditorium at the University of Aveiro.
“Two brotherly hills” is an “ethno-poetic” essay connecting the experience of being present in two places with people inside, specifically, two mountains located around three hundred kilometers apart: Pico Sacro, in the municipality of Boqueixón (near Santiago de Compostela, in the Galician province of A Coruña) and Monte de São Macário, in the municipality of São Pedro do Sul (in the Portuguese region of Viseu Dão Lafões). Curiously, both hills are linked to saints from faraway lands, Alexandria and Jerusalem, as well as being symbolically associated with aspects of human brain health.
The essay is presented in the form of an archive of the creative process, one that was catalogued and expanded, trying to respond artistically to a personal intuition: that there is a mobilizing process of brotherhood between certain places, the result of an “invisible” combination of geomorphology, landscape typology and socio-cultural aspects.
The artist would like to thank Lana Pías Peleteiro and Juan Pías Peleteiro, in Santiago de Compostela, as well as José Almeida (father) and José Almeida (son), in São Pedro do Sul, for their collaboration in the project.
Audiovisual recording of the interview and documentation of the opening of the installation by Liliana Silva.
Binaural Nodar is a cultural organization supported by the Portuguese Government – Culture | Directorate-General for the Arts.