Exhibition focused on the unique recent history of the village of Luz, particularly on the period of the moving motivated by the Alqueva dam.
Those who visit the Alentejo today are facing profound changes, the result of the dynamics introduced by the Alqueva Project.
EDIA, as an entity whose purpose is to design, execute, build, operate and promote the Alqueva Multipurpose Enterprise, has been ensuring that all steps are implemented in a sustainable manner and in compliance with environmental and heritage concerns.
In the area of Cultural Heritage, an area where it has made a considerable financial investment in about 2,000 archaeological interventions, it has brought to light many archaeological remains preserved underground and most of them unknown to the scientific community. Traces identified within the Environmental Impact Assessment processes, but mainly during land mobilization works, in the context of construction.
In order to promote rapid action in the face of these archaeological evidence, EDIA has been ensuring the presence of specialized technicians in the field, implementing the appropriate minimization measures for each case (archaeological excavations and various registers), of which highlight the technical publications with the reports of the interventions performed.
It is part of the result of these works that EDIA, through the Museu da Luz, in partnership with the Municipality of Mora, now presents in this temporary exhibition patent to the public until the end ot september 2019.
This temporary exhibition, “Terra a Três”, has the support of the Alentejo Regional Directorate of Culture and was born from a challenge posed to the photographer António Cunha,the poet Martinho Marques and the plastic artist Jorge Humberto (Joh), when the Luz Museum considered how interesting it would be to link various areas of art with a focus on the same theme.
This was the challenge given to the three artists so that, from the contact element at work, the earth, it was possible to put into dialogue the multiple perspectives on the same theme.
Remember that the Museu da Luz was born from the need to preserve the memory of a village, the village of Luz, submerged by the waters of Alqueva. It is this Museum that is the “faithful keeper” of the ancestral estate of customs and traditions and utensils that made the history of a village. But it is, above all, a space designed for the future and for the settlement of a new village.
