By telling the story of the Bowing project, implemented over the course of three years, Bowing Doc uses this precedent to continue the practice and to document and reflect on what was done, while offering a platform for other collectives, individuals or organisations to create and implement their art and migration projects.

A platform that is also for all the participants, for the families on the other side of the world, for the artists, technicians, teachers and people who took part in this journey, as a way of retaining and celebrating the shared memory.

It is for Europe, but above all for Portugal, where there is little awareness, knowledge and discussion about the huge migratory phenomenon in Odemira that needs to be recognised and addressed. This site also tackles the issue of how to bring a long-term project to an end or, perhaps, how to progressively bring it to an end. 

For now, it’s goodbye.