Discover a work by Brazilian artist Rose Afefé, created in collaboration with the senior care facility on Lavičková Street in Trenčín.
Brazilian artist Rose Afefé created a new work in collaboration with seniors from the facility on Lavičková Street in Trenčín. Through a series of meetings, she opened up a space for memories of former homes – their colours, sounds, objects, alcoves and small details.
The residents of the senior care facility, the central figures of the work, are also bearers of the city’s living memory. They have been an active part of the city for many years, but today their health often prevents them from taking part in current cultural events.
From fragments of stories, a fragile architecture of memory emerges. Two interconnected interventions – one in the garden of the senior care facility and the other in M. R. Štefánik Park in Trenčín – bring these unique memories into public space. Oral memory, which might otherwise disappear, is materialised here through a work of art. It preserves precious images of the city and of homes that may no longer exist, but can still enrich our collective imagination.
Opening: 3 September 2026, 7:00 PM
Exhibition dates: 4 September – 29 November 2026
Venue: M. R. Štefánik Park
Project partner: YBYTU São Paulo
Curated by: Jaro Varga and Adam Civín
Photos: Matej Slezák / @tam_a_tam
Rose Afefé (*1988, Varzedo, Bahia) is a Brazilian visual artist whose work interweaves memory, architecture, landscape and collective knowledge. She works with installation, painting and photography, often drawing on memories of her childhood and life in rural Brazil.
Since 2018, she has been developing Terra Afefé in the Chapada Diamantina region, a human-scale micro-city built from earth using traditional techniques of unfired bricks and limewash. Terra Afefé is both a work of art and a living place, where architecture grows out of memory, community collaboration and a sensitive relationship with the landscape.
