The memories of the Place in the Palm of One’s Hand. Arts Practices and Well-Being
Abstract
This text describes the working process and the results of a visual arts project developed with a group of women over the age of 65, entitled ‘A Map in the Palm of One’s Hand’. Taking the memory of places as its central theme, the project, embedded in the territory of a city in southern Portugal (Santiago do Cacém), has culminated in an artistic intervention in a public space, in the form of an installation.
Participating in the project were the authors of this article, all as artists, teachers, and researchers; 13 women over the age of 65 and a resident artist who had worked with the group on a project promoting active ageing and who acted as a mediator between the group and those responsible for the project.
Carried out in the form of a workshop and artistic residency, the project focused on contemporary practices in the visual arts and resulted in an installation taking place in a public space in the city centre.
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