The starting point of the project is the physical journey of artist Rui Miguel Leitão Ferreira from his hometown of Ericeira in Portugal to Novigrad-Cittanova in Croatia. Driving his Art Car across Europe, Ferreira transforms the route into a living map of encounters, visual interventions, geographical crossings, and personal notes. The road becomes a working method, unfolding as a slow form of research.

At Rigo Gallery, through conversation and presentation, Ferreira will introduce his project as an “exhibition in progress” and begin his creative work. In this way, Rigo Gallery becomes the artist’s temporary studio, where, day by day, Ferreira invites the public into the images of his journey and personal ecosystem, gradually building an exhibition whose final form will emerge on the last day of his stay in Novigrad-Cittanova.

Rigo Gallery also becomes a workshop space: a place of encounter between the artist and the public, of dialogue and exchange of experiences, creativity, and engagement with contemporary artistic approaches.

Ericeira >> Novigrad: En Route opens up questions about places that increasingly become images, images that become lifestyles, and lifestyles that turn into landscapes. The project remains intentionally unfinished and exists as a journey that continues, as an archive still being built, and as an exhibition taking shape in front of the public.