One swallow does not make a revolution

From 17 April, when you enter the Time Out Market food hall, look upwards before you look for what you’re going to eat and drink. Once again, the ceiling of the market hall will feature an art installation, this time dedicated to celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of 25 April 1974, Portugal’s Revolution.

The design studio Oupas! – who describe themselves as a team of “true women from the North” – are to author and realise this project, which like many others they have undertaken all over the country and abroad, involves paper and cardboard.

From a vast range of graphic elements, two universally recognised ones were chosen: the red carnation and the swallow. The red carnation, inserted into the barrel of soldiers’ rifles on 25 April 1974, became a symbol of peaceful revolutionary change and freedom, while the swallow, in Oupas! words, is “a national symbol, a metaphor for worldwide migratory movements, but also a parallel as a symbol of freedom and peace, the white dove carrying the olive branch.”

This is Time Out Market’s way of joining in the celebrations of this important date.