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"Passarola", drawing by LUZ

This edition's identity featured the visual (and musical) work of LUZ, spanning drawing and ceramics

Preliminary compositions based on LUZ's works

"Chamada!": the open call

Sementeira 13 visual identity

Sementeira 13 manifesto: "The Earth to those who live in it"

Animated poster

Street posters (series)

Artists participating in the collective visual arts exhibition

Last weekend programme

Programme highlights: posters, social media

Folded leaflet with programme

Artwork identification

Sementeira 13 album. Mostly photographs by Tiago Resende

Left Bloc (political party)
2025

Event
Multidisciplinary cultural programme, with a collective visual arts exhibition, concerts, dance and performances, talks, poetry and debates

Monotype Corsiva, Peignot

Collaborative work with Pedrokas, under the signature Cabanões Cardoso Artistic Cooperative

↗ I would very much like to tell you more about Sementeira and what brought me to the Left Bloc :)

● We joined the organisation of Sementeira, a multidisciplinary festival organised by the Left Bloc Viseu, in 2017.

● Sementeira was born out of conviction and volunteerism, with complete autonomy, taking over a spacious party headquarters in the historic centre to promote the talent of creatives, artists and craftspeople — no sponsorships, no filters, no imposed themes. For two weeks in July, the space becomes a «fertile ground» for exhibitions, concerts, workshops, performances, political debate. Curation is collective, participation open to all, and the targets are the self-censorship and isolation common in weak (read: scattered, disconnected) creative ecosystems. Sementeira is a coalition of minority and marginalised sensibilities taking centre stage.

● In 2025, with the aim of alluding to the 50th anniversary of the Land Reform, we invited visual artist LUZ (draughtsman, painter, ceramicist and musician) to provide and develop works across his various usual registers and themes for Sementeiraʼs visual communication: the natural world, mythology, craftsmanship, rurality.

Featured artist: LUZ
In 2025, we invited visual artist LUZ (draughtsman, painter, ceramicist and musician) to provide and develop works across his various usual registers and themes for visual communication: the natural world, mythology, craftsmanship, rurality. Steering clear, as usual, of the rich visual imaginary of the period, the goal was to establish our own visual lexicon to allude to the Land Reform, whose 50th anniversary served as the motto for the 13th edition of Sementeira.