This is a state primary school in the typical Portuguese dictatorship architecture style (Estado Novo). The installation took place during summer holidays.

In the entrance hall of the empty building children’s voices vibrate, coming from four hidden loudspeakers. The stereo sound is that of children playing in the playground with the school bell ringing and the distant sound of a dog barking.

After walking up the staircase one of the classrooms door is unlocked. Inside it: silence. And immediately after, the door bangs loudly closing behind the viewer due to a simple mechanical devise. Alone and in silence the classroom is presented as a blinding white preserved memory landscape as a snapshot from the past. The furniture including desks, chairs, shelves, the windows and the black board were wrapped in white cloth hand sewn in place.

The desks were perfectly organised in three rows in remembrance of the spatial disposition of the bad, average and good students in a classroom.