Dia de Feira — "Market Day" — exceeds the boundaries of a regular day. 

This ritual,unchanged since medieval times, carries forward gestures, sounds, and aromas passed down through generations since the 12th century.

Among improvised stalls and echoing vendors' calls, yesterday's harvest changes hands: fruits and vegetables picked at dawn, bread with home fragrance, tools built to outlast their makers. Yet the market's essence transcends commerce—it remains fundamentally a place of encounter, a territory of communion where stories and affections travel alongside goods.

This density of collective time permeates Matilde Viegas's work. She captures enduring traditions and reinvented customs, alongside the fragile individual narratives that dwell behind each face, each displayed offering. Neither tourist attraction nor picturesque tableau emerges here, but something far more essential: the market as living organism, vibrant and delicate, pulsing through every extended hand, every exchanged glance, every sun-worn fabric.

This sensorial dimension expands through an audiovisual installation featuring videos by artist and filmmaker Mafalda Salgueiro, who documented alongside Viegas the market's authentic cacophony — voices layering into murmur, movement creating vibration, sound drawing us into the market's beating heart.

Dia de Feira becomes more than documentation—it invites us to reconsider the familiar. Viegas reveals the market as symbolic space of cultural resistance and belonging, a profoundly contemporary portrait reminding us that in our accelerated, virtual world, certain places still exist where time decelerates, where human encounter remains irreplaceable, where value includes the weight of delivering hands.

Through her characteristic sensitivity and precision, Viegas creates work that extends far beyond visual experience. We hear vendors calling, feel sack weights and fruit textures, sense wind moving through fabric. Here poetry inhabits dailiness, transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary. Dia de Feira offers testimony to shared intimacy, working dignity, and communal belonging — celebrating the essential exchanges that occur not in digital space, but in the ancient ritual where stories, sustenance, and human connection remain beautifully intertwined.