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Dossier da Mata do Vimeiro. A tribute to Joaquim Vieira Natividade.

Anderson de Azevedo Alves, Anita Baldaia, Carolina Brites, Cristina Mourão, Inês Dias, João Nunes, Kateryna Oleshchenko, Laura Santos, Priyal Vassaramo, Simão Cruz, Sofia Puglielli Cristóvão, Tomás Augusto

EXHIBITION
FROM JULY 17TH TO OCTOBER 26TH, 2025
ARMAZÉM DAS ARTES – ALCOBAÇA

The Dossier da Mata (…) shows photographs and text which reflect distinct ways of seeing on Vimeiro National Forest, produced by around 15 students. All the personal views shared the same starting point, which was the research carried out by Professor Joaquim Vieira Natividade -Researcher and then aspiring Forestry Engineer- in this forest between 1929 and the early 1950s.

While the small group of photographs presented by each student reveals the subjectivity of his.her poetic response to the contemporary forest, the whole set of photographs, as well as the collaborative text, constitute a collective and contemporary testimony to the botanical diversity, the aesthetic appeal of the grove and, to a certain extent, the history of this forest. A forest of which Natividade was photographer, narrator, planner and carer.

The pieces – photography and text – were selected from the responses worked on for the exercises in UC Laboratório de Criação I: fotografia -1º ano MASI.
The fieldwork trips to Mata do Vimeiro, during the classes, were funded by Armazém das Artes / Alcobaça City Council. This exhibition is related with a research project on photography and drawing in the work of J.V. Natividade (still in preparation for LiDA).