Creating a multimedia device:
After a challenge, a process of awareness.
A search for meanings that build emotional discourse.
From this light, from this perception or from this fantasy will come information.
Challenge: – Express the repercussion of the presence of water in the late medieval period in Évora.
The forming question: How do I perceive the medieval period?
A space-time that comes to us through works of art and documentation segmented by versions that portray almost only one-off issues.
Fragments of lives of distant generations. Fragments.
Water: Element, indispensable, atmosphere, work, mechanics, value, health, life. H2O: Three molecules.
Key values that take me thinking to a force that unites everything, that brings and fixes beings. Cycle-relation. Cycle.
The process led me to imagine a device that could contain and convey this emotional information. It does not matter to me to describe more details of the creative process, because I do not even know how to concretize steps, but somehow the idea of an optical illusion using glass or mirrors seemed to me potential because of the relation of texture to water.
I came to a storefront, where the sense of mystery prevails that the temporal distance from medieval times imposes on us.
The three molecules were an argument for finding three key elements of human existence: Perception (textures), consciousness (information), work (art).
Three video spheres.
The optical illusion created with a set of mirrors would be that of an supposed cistern’s interior, a room of masonry and humidity made with a walled wall image on a real scale. Photographed on a rainy day next to the aqueduct of the Água de Prata (Silver water).
The projection system was achieved with a short-throw video projector lens.
The video and sound are transmitted by a microcomputer (raspberry pi 3b) programmed to act as an uninterrupted player, which also served for the emission of the sound design created by me for the exhibition’s acoustics.
I share some images of the planning and construction process.
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Many thanks to: Dr. Cármen Almeida (Head of the Town Hall’s Culture Division) for the challenge has driven me. A great opportunity to participate in the remarkable exhibition they’ve organized.
Thanks to the Architect Carlos Almeida, Mr. Joaquim Almeida da T.H of Évora.
Mr. João of Vidromor and Luís Farias from DacAdvertising. co.
* “O Aqueduto da Água de Prata e o Património Hidraulico em Évora”
* “The Aqueduct of the Silver Water and the Hydraulic Heritage in Évora”, Exhibition at the Convento dos Remédios, March to December of 2018.
