CUF sports clubs
- Barreiro (PT)
- september 2024 — oktober 2025
- In samenwerking met Alexandra SverinssonBianca WilsonChristina Bartley DominguezDanny LeylandEve BracewellMatthew SwiftRachel MortlockTinieka Page
- Met dank aan Museu Industrial Baía do TejoPADA studiosReina del MarTania Geiroto MarcelinoTim Ralston
- Gesponsord door Fonds Kwadraat
These works were created after discovering images of the camping club in CUF’s corporate archive in Barreiro, Portugal. The CUF camping club engaged in activities such as making fires, waving flags, displaying their camping equipment, and of course organizing camping trips. It was a great way to strengthen team spirit, stay healthy, and thereby increase productivity.
From the 1930s to 1974, the Companhia União Fabril (CUF) was one of the largest and oldest Portuguese conglomerates. In the industrial city of Barreiro, they founded numerous leisure clubs for their employees, including football, basketball, photography, and even a camping club.
This installation was created with the idea that we only rest so that we can get back to work. When you lie in the tent, your head rests on a production schedule from a CUF factory.
I think my whole life is a kind of corporate camping club.
I always get confused about the things that have to be done and the things I want to do. Work and leisure seem to merge into one another.
