The project “Ceraunia” comes from a relation of convergence between some archaeological findings from the city of Braga, on a proposal of dialogue between 3 elements: the Roman inscription on a stone that is now part of Sé Cathedral, that attests the formal refoundation of the city, involving the burial of a lightning; Fonte do Ídolo - the rock Sanctuary (curiously located in the current Rua do Raio (Lightning Street) and which includes iconography associated with the thunder, namely the stone hammer located on the pediment on top of the statue of Tongoe Nabiago (water god); and the bifaces, tools that testify the oldest records of man-made tools (as the multiple pieces that are stored at Museu de Arqueologia D.Diogo de Sousa). On the popular belief, bifaces were understood as Ceraunias* or Thunderstones, because they were found buried in the ground, it was believed that they had fallen with the lightning (with their pointed format would resemble the tip of a lightning).
     The convergence is then made, not only from the inevitable symbolic coincidences but also from the material element of stone, as a symbol of magical intervention.
     Speculating around the elements and contexts referred, we conceived the stone walls of Museu da Imagem both as a surface of projection and as scenography, part of a symbolical overlap.

* from the Greek, keraunos, thunderbolt