RETROSPETIVA RARA is an exhibition of contemporary design and crafts objects that traces a retrospective of the portfolio created during five editions of RARA – Design and Crafts Residency of the Azores. Curated by Miguel Flor, the designer who follows the project since 2014, Retrospetiva RARA intends to highlight the remarkable projects, most of which prototypes, which were born from the joint work between designers, from multiple geographies, Azorean artisans and local workshops that work materials and techniques such as wood, basalt, wicker, fish scales, ceramics, weaving and typography. Besides a RARA (“rare”) experience, for meeting people of different generations, origins and know-how, the residencies that are on the root of this show are, above all, moments of exchange of affections motivated by the appreciation and desire to innovate the cultural heritage of the Azores.

On show at Parque Atlântico, a venue that welcomes for the first time a project of the Walk&Talk festival, the display will be presented in the central square, in a structure made of cryptomeria wood and specially designed by the architect Nuno Paiva to act in the transformation of the surrounding environment, adding to it an object of sculptural character, tactile and open to be explored by the visitors.

Artisans and workshops
Associação Arrisca, Cerâmica Vieira, Fátima Andrade, Herdeiros Agostinho Medeiros Lda, Horácio Raposo, Idalina Negalha, Jacinta Teixeira, João Andrade, Maria Pimentel, Oficina Museu das Capelas, Quinta do Priôlo, Tipografia Micaelense, Veneranda Silva

Artists and designers
Bráulio Amado, Brian Thorren, Carolina Brito, Caroline David, Célia Esteves, Kurt Woerpel, Julio Dolbeth, Leo Nguyen, Mafalda Fernandes, Nicole Shinn, Pedrita, Sam Baron, Simone Ponte, Rui Freitas, Rui Vitorino Santos, Tim Lahan, UVA - Cristina Hora & Sérgio Rebelo, WSDIA - Jonathan Jackson & Sarah Jackson