The story
The wall
Add Fuel painted AVARINA in 2016 for the Muraliza street art festival in Cascais. He reworked the Portuguese azulejo tile pattern to speak about Portuguese identity and the tradition of the varinas, the fishermen's wives who sold fresh fish. He learned that a varina named Helena had sold fish in front of the same wall about forty years earlier.1
The neighbourhood
The wall is in the Torre neighbourhood, built in the 1960s as a suburb to move fishermen and their families out of the village centre.1
What the artist meant
Add Fuel says he wanted to ask how a tradition can survive in a fast, technology-driven world.1
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