Cartas de Lisboa / Lisbon Letters

This project for the Literary festival,  Lisboa 5L was designed to revive and archive of letters that were sent since the XV century from several places in Lisbon. Each letter was addresses from a specific place near a train station where the illustrations were shown.

A letter about a robbery and assassination at Campo das Cebolas, downtown Lisbon, in the XVII century.
A letter from a soldier talking about his injuries during the Napoleonic invasions. IX century.
A complaint to the mayor of the city about smelly raw sewage. XVII century.
A letter complaining about an unfit king and his arrival in Lisbon. XVII century.
A letter from a father to his son’s guardian in Brazil asking him to make good of his zealot son. XVIII century.
A burglar vows to physically harm a magistrate if he does not help him out of prison. XVII Century.
A letter between brothers where one complains being mistreated by the wife of owner of the grocery shop where he works. XVII century.
A letter from a son to a father from India in the XVI century
A letter asking for food to a brother. XVII century.