Honrar Quem Trabalha

Honrar Quem Trabalha (Honouring Those Who Work) is a tile panel on the façade of the Amadora City Hall building, unveiled in April 2024 to mark the 50th anniversary of the 25 April Revolution. The project began with a challenge from the photographer Alfredo Cunha, whose images documented the revolution and the years that followed, to Alexandre Farto aka VHILS. The panel is based on a photograph Alfredo Cunha took at a demonstration in August 1975, a year after the revolution, at a time when workers had regained the right to fight for better conditions. Its central figure is a worker from Sorefame, the railway rolling-stock manufacturer that was based in Amadora. The artist translated the photograph into more than 4,000 glazed ceramic tiles, produced with Viúva Lamego and covering an area of 88 m², using a glazed-tile technique he developed himself. Tile, one of the most enduring materials in Portuguese architecture, carries the image fifty years forward and sets it permanently in the city's public space. The panel pays tribute to Alfredo Cunha's record of the revolutionary period and to the working-class history of Amadora.