All This Green Makes Me Tired

In 2004, Portugal hosted the European Football Championship. For the occasion, the exhibition 'Uma Cidade de Futebol' [A City of Football] was organised, showing the impact of football on Portuguese society and on the Lisbon landscape. '(Sobreviver a) Uma Cidade de Futebol' [(Surviving) A City of Football] was São Trindade's answer to the media saturation and multitudes of fans. Taking the exhibition catalogue on a trip to Goa, she discovered a reality where football does not exist and came into contact with other conceptions of time and the body. The escapism of her trip turned into a retreat. Appropriating the catalogue, she introduced faits divers from local newspapers and intervened on the photographs with colourful oriental symbols that clash with football's culture of competition and success.