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O Que Faz falta é Agitar a Malta — Ephemera Archive Posters is a exhibition of contemporary posters (spontaneous initiative and artisanal nature) preserved by Ephemera - Library and Archive of José Pacheco Pereira. This is the first moment of a program that will culminate in 2019 in the Porto Design Biennale, with a more extensive and documented exhibition on graphic artefacts produced in the context of protest actions. This exhibition presents, for the first time, a unique collection, with with Ephemera occupies this warehouse of Baía do Tejo, in Barreiro Business Park.

The exhibition, which opens on Tuesday, April 24, at 5 pm, in the Business Park of Barreiro, curated by the historian, professor and political scientist José Pacheco Pereira and Helena Sofia Silva, researcher in Design and lecturer at ESAD.

The exhibition O Que Faz Falta é Agitar a Malta - Ephemera Archive Posters is the first initiative of the partnership established between Baía do Tejo and Ephemera, which provides for the regular development of cultural activities, open and available to the community. This is also consolidating the cluster of creative industries and the area of knowledge that Baía do Tejo has been promoting in its parks.

With about 200,000 titles, the archive/library Ephemera aims to disseminate the collections, books, periodicals, manuscripts, pamphlets, photos, objects belonging to the personal archive of José Pacheco Pereira, making them accessible to all. Collects, treats, invents and disseminates materials - documents, posters, images, photographs, objects, testimonies … - about the cultural, social, economic and political history of Portugal and internationally, focusing on demonstrations, protests and forms of social conflict and political, which is the subject of the exhibition now presented in Barreiro.

As expressions of protest and resistance, the posters that are now in exhibition represent the contribution of ordinary citizens, often anonymous, to political and democratic life, constituting themselves as documents of a history of the people. They represent the need to echo a voice, to inscribe it in the public discourse, to translate a revolt, to demand visibility. They represent urgencies and intensities, so many of them are no more than strained and quick inscriptions on crude, improvised supports, literally recovered from the garbage. 'O Que Faz falta é Agitar a Malta' is a verse from an intervention song by Zeca Afonso, one of many that can be read on the posters produced by the group 'The Toupeiras' to honor the memory of the April Revolution, summoning stories, characters and the enthusiasm of so many other revolutions that wanted to change the world. Emerging like moles, this agitated guys have moved against austerity, inequality, oil exploration, sexual harassment or the tragic fires of last summer in Portugal. And that is much of what is missing.
— José Pacheco Pereira e Helena Sofia Silva, curators of the exhibition

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