Varjões (2013 - present)

Through Varjões I look for confront the spectator with the consequences of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam construction in the Xingu river (Pará, Brazil). This energy project was born in 1975, but it was not until the second decade of the 21st century that the first works began on the Volta Grande do Xingu. Throughout these 45 years, there were several environmental licence penalisations and successive human rights violations, which gave rise to a strong answer from the local communities, environmentalists and brazilian and foreign social movements. Despite this, the hydroelectric plant was built between 2016 and 2019 and 500km² of natural and cultural heritage of the brazilian Amazon have been declared in danger of disappearance.

The project has been divided in three blocks:

1.  Ordem e Progresso, 2015, print on fabric, 100x150 cm.

This work proposes a new reading of the Brazilian Republic flag, as a symbolic space that can be reviewed, and uses as a basis the report of 2015 of the INPE (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais) and the SAD (Sistema de Alerta de Desmatamiento). The work interpellates the spectator about the delicate brazilian reality. The green color is associated with the brazilian Atlantic forest and the Amazon rainforest wealth; so I decided to update the representation of that attribute, defacing the flag to illustrate the Amazon deforestation problems.

 2.  Kararaô, 2014, instalation, dimensions variable.

In the Kayapó town language, Kararaô represents a battle cry and it was the first name that this energetic project had. In 1989, the president of Electrobras, José Antônio Muniz Lopez, was the one who baptisied it with that word. This work is an installation that reproduces the torture mechanism of the “Chinese drop” about the Constitution of the brazilian Republic in 1988, the UN Declaration of the Indigenous Peoples Rights and the Convention No.169 of the Indigenous People and Tribial of the ILO, to symbolically illustrate the social consequences that the hydroelectric plant has had on the local population.

 3.  Evidências, 2013-2014, collage y aquarelle, dimensions variable.

This work shows the different phases of the Belo Monte hydroelectric plant construction, where reality and ficción are confused.