The exhibition “Barefoot feet and open windows, a path in the convent”, by Ana Bonifácio, was inaugurated, at the Leiria Museum, on April 16th of 2021 and was open to the public until August 2021, within the broader scope of program associated with the exhibition Plasticidade – A History of Plastics in Portugal.
“From this Plasticity – A History of Plastics in Portugal (exhibition that the pandemic rightly prolonged) became an ‘expanded artistic residency’ for a new narrative about territory and plastic”, says Ana Bonifácio.
“In fertile lands next to Lis, very close to a paper mill, a convent was installed in the 16th century, which enjoyed a good distance from the village of that time. And time made the houses grow. And the convent, which was far away, was close. And the path was short. And on this path that is now being proposed – an exhibition route going ‘against the flow’ –, the motto was, in principle, the relationship between this place and the city that was the birthplace of the democratization of plastics”, she underlines.
