Pivô welcomes Lídia Sá for a food-focused residency in partnership with LINA Cozinha

From August 1 to 31, Pivô Boulevard welcomes Lídia Sá for a residency developed in partnership with LINA Cozinha, taking food as a field of inquiry into memory, territory, material culture, and collective modes of production.

The residency takes as its starting point the notes from Lina Bo Bardi’s journeys through the interior of Bahia during the 1950s and 1960s, when she mapped cities across the Recôncavo and the sertão as part of her research into the popular dimension of Brazilian culture.

Drawing on notes, maps, and documents preserved in the collections of the Instituto Bardi and MAM-BA, the residency revisits these itineraries and proposes a new reading of them. Rather than focusing exclusively on the places Lina visited in search of craftsmanship, construction techniques, and raw materials, the research expands its scope to encompass other systems of cultural production found in these same territories: farming practices, artisanal fishing, markets, kitchens, home gardens, fairs, traditional communities, and contemporary networks of small-scale producers.

The project seeks to understand how food systems intersect with the same territories where Lina identified forms of artisanal knowledge, revealing continuities between material culture, labor, landscape, and ways of life.

The residency combines field research with a public program in direct dialogue with Pivô’s residency program. Throughout the process, it strengthens Pivô’s relationship with the territory by fostering exchanges among producers, cooks, artisans, researchers, and local communities, contributing to a collaborative network that will remain open to future projects, research initiatives, and partnerships between LINA Cozinha and Pivô.

Lídia Sá’s relationship with cooking began long before gastronomy became her profession. In her family, cooking was always a way of bringing people together, welcoming friends, and creating memories around the table. Later, this vocation was expanded through experiences at some of Brazil’s leading catering references, including Mestiço, in São Paulo, and Buffet Charlô.

Lídia founded LINA Cozinha, a project created to offer hospitality through food. With a creative vocation, LINA also keeps its kitchen open to artistic residencies, research, collaborations, and special projects, understanding gastronomy as a space where culture, art, knowledge, and territory come together.