WALLS TO THE PEOPLE - JOÃO PAULO FELICIANO - INSTALATION

The Serralves Foundation and Samsung set a challenge for the artist, João Paulo Feliciano, to create an artistic project that would engage the general public via an interactive initiative using technological resources: smartphones, tablets and “augmented reality” technology. The resulting installation focuses on various spontaneous and popular visual and linguistic expressions that we normally find inscribed on the walls of public spaces. Based on the artist’s personal retrieval of spontaneous, naive and subversive communicational expressions in public spaces, he has selected recordings that are “applied”, via an “augmented reality” process, to the walls of Serralves Villa. Although achieved virtually, this re-contextualisation confers a new character to the graphic interventions: subversive, on the one hand, but also playful and humorous. The inscriptions can’t be seen at first. We invite members of the general public to explore and discover each of the inscriptions, by walking inside and outside the Villa and pointing their devices at the walls.
This installation will be inaugurated on 28 January, at 15:00. Free entrance.
Within the framework of this inauguration, free entrance will also be granted to Serralves Park on Saturday, 28 January from 14:30 onwards.
For those who would also like to visit the Museum, the respective Museum ticket will only cost 5 Euros on this day, from 14:30 onwards.
Note: The experience may be affected by weather conditions.

Co-Production: Serralves Foundation and Samsung