I was invited to design and create several site specific artworks for Ruvida: Untypical Italian restaurant and Pausa, Bistrot that form part of Ruvida’s family.
Each space tell a different story...
At Ruvida the characters evoque a series of scene like little ghosts of the past, from the old casa de fado das mariquinhas, to the illegal selling of alchol and tobacco in the beco dos contrabandistas, when the Armada moved in the neightbourhood after the earthquake.
At Pausa I, the childrren tale of la volpe e l'uva is the inspiration, as a comic stripe drawn in red wine on the white walls of of the restaurant.
At Pausa II, you can find Il barolo rampante, jumping from one tree to another... A revisited version of the great tale from Itallo Calvino.
