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TRAMONTANA IN MONTEMURO
\nInternational Artist Residency
\nAugust 15th to September 12th, 2026
\nParada de Ester (Castro Daire)<\/p>\n

THE MOUNTAIN REMEMBERS WATER
\nJurgen Walschot (Belgium)<\/p>\n

For more than twenty years, Jurgen Walschot\u2019s artistic practice has evolved through walking, drawing and observing, slow acts that allow him to sense how landscape shapes perception and thought. His ongoing project To Be the Mountain explores the mountain not as a fixed object, but as a living body, constantly in dialogue with time, movement and change.<\/p>\n

For the Tramontana residency, he focused on the relationship between mountains and water, as material, rhythm and memory. Springs, fountains and water mills reveal how communities have worked with and cared for water as a vital, shared presence: for the artist, they are archives of flow. In Montemuro he worked on site through walking and direct observation, making drawings and watercolours with water from the mountain\u2019s springs and streams, collecting samples of water and sediments for a personal archive and for natural pigments, and making rubbings and graphite studies of stones, walls and old water infrastructures. The project also engages with the social realities of water, its scarcity, management and symbolic and ecological value in an era of climate disruption, tracing a living cartography of care through meetings with the people who maintain or remember these structures. The residency in the Montemuro mountains is in dialogue with a second residency in the Sudetes, in Poland.<\/p>\n

A co-production of Binaural Nodar and the Municipality of Castro Daire, through the Municipal Library, with the support of the Union of Civil Parishes of Parada de Ester and Ester, within the Tramontana Network project, co-funded by the European Union\u2019s Creative Europe programme.<\/p>\n

Binaural Nodar is a cultural organization supported by the Portuguese Republic – Culture, Youth and Sports | Directorate-General for the Arts.<\/p>\n<\/div>

Jurgen Walschot (Belgium) is a draughtsman, illustrator, graphic designer and teacher. He has illustrated numerous books, mostly for children and young readers, including De oceaan van Mare, De serres van Mendel and Stroom, with writer Kirstin Vanlierde, with whom he also runs the collaborative project Zaailingen, in which writing and image respond to each other; Heersers in harnas (2008), with Ed Franck; Van 12 tot 1 (2012), with Wally De Doncker; and Frida\u2019s coole klimaatboek (2019), with Moniek Vermeulen and Frank Pollet. Alongside this, for more than twenty years he has developed an artistic practice grounded in walking, drawing and observing, which continues in his ongoing project To Be the Mountain.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31012,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[1709,1212,1217,1254],"portfolio_skills":[],"portfolio_tags":[],"class_list":["post-31069","avada_portfolio","type-avada_portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-2026-en","portfolio_category-activities-en","portfolio_category-artist-residencies-en","portfolio_category-artistas-en"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t