This is a project for all health professionals.
Until March 2022, 5 artists from the 289 Association will exhibit their work in the cafeteria of the Algarve University Hospital Centre.
Until March 2022, 5 artists from the 289 Association will exhibit their work in the cafeteria of the Algarve University Hospital Centre.
Promoting wellbeing through culture
With the Art for Health project we want to improve the physical, mental and social well-being of the health professionals of our city's hospital.
The pandemic has been very hard for all of us but especially for these professionals.
We believe that art relieves the emotional tension felt by health professionals. This tension is even greater nowadays. The pandemic has changed the daily lives of all of us, but especially of those who are in contact with patients.
The artistic interventions take place in the cafeteria because this is a space through which all the hospital's health professionals pass: doctors, executives, administrative staff, technicians, nurses, auxiliary staff, etc.
The pandemic has been very hard for all of us but especially for these professionals.
We believe that art relieves the emotional tension felt by health professionals. This tension is even greater nowadays. The pandemic has changed the daily lives of all of us, but especially of those who are in contact with patients.
The artistic interventions take place in the cafeteria because this is a space through which all the hospital's health professionals pass: doctors, executives, administrative staff, technicians, nurses, auxiliary staff, etc.
Encouraging the relationship between health professionals and artists
This is a collaborative project. The artworks to be exhibited results from conversations carried out between the artists, health professionals and the Faro2027 team. All users of the cafeteria have the chance to get in touch with the artist through digital means. In this way the artists receive messages from those who are observing their artworks.
Testimonials
"Thank you for sharing your works, they have definitely generated different conversations during break time! Congratulations!"
"Interesting initiative, it really makes a difference looking at the walls in the cafeteria, it relieves the mind"
"Thank you!!! Keep up, the art makes the hospital a better place"
Meet the artists participating in the project
Gustavo Jesus
29th of November to 17th of December He has a degree in Visual Arts, a postgraduate qualification in and Performing Arts and Master in Communication, Culture and Arts (Image Studies). Over the last few years, he has been developing work as a artist in areas, among others, such as sculpture painting, drawing, photography, video, installation or public art which has been reflected in exhibition projects, of individual or collective character that have taken place in various spaces around the country. |
Milita Doré
20th of December 2021 to 11th of January 2022 Born in Albufeira (1958) he lived between Paris and Cannes until he was 30 before returning to the Algarve in 1988. He has been exhibiting since 2004 and follows the aesthetic theory classes at Ar.Co in 2009 and the Mobilehome contemporary art courses organized by Numo Faria between 2009 and 2012. In 2018 he graduates in visual arts at UALG in Faro and is part of the association 289. His work, in general, focuses around the body, present or absent. He is interested in the human condition in its psychological context, conscious and unconscious, and uses various means so to express himself, such as drawing, painting, installation, photography, video or sound. |
Régis Vincent
15th of January to 5th of February 2021 He began his artistic journey when he entered the course of Visual Arts at the University of Algarve in 2009/2010.Coming from a generation influenced by hip-hop/graffiti, his evolution in this Arts course made him start to explore other means of visual expression. Passing through painting and drawing, multimedia and illustration the artist came to find his artistic language in organic forms where the movement repeats itself again and again imitating the cycles that repeat themselves again and again in nature. In these works the artist tries to transpose a barrier imposed by the support he uses, trying to create an illusion of drawing in space, a space that is beyond the flat surface he is subjected to. |
Leandro Marcos
February 8th to March2nd 2022 Graduated in Visual Arts, by the University of Algarve, he participated in several exhibitions, collective and individual including "(IN)Conscious" at Q Espaço Cultural in Faro, Portugal, "OILGARVE", FARPA LAB, Faro, Portugal, "Ligéni 72, (subs.) strange forms", FARPA LAB, Faro, Portugal in 2015, "289 Project by Pedro Cabrita Reis", 289 Cultural Association, Faro, Portugal, "The Bridge", LAR Gallery, Lagos, Portugal in 2019, among others. He was a member of Policromia Associação Cultural between 2015 and 2017 and is currently a member of 289 Associação Cultural. |
Fernando Sampaio Amaro
March 5th to March 26th 2022 Doctorate in Modern and Contemporary Art History from the University of Lund, Sweden, and was for several years a lecturer in the Visual Arts Degree at the University of Algarve. Currently, Fernando Sampaio Amaro develops his artistic work in two distinct lines: a plastic-formal research in the area of painting and drawing, and another in which he uses the device of installation, of conceptual matrix, where he approaches themes in the scope of Philosophy and History, among others, questioning and inviting the observer to position himself on the subjects in presence. |