Dead River

At the height of the mining town of Lagoa da Prata, the São Francisco River is permeated by hundreds of hectares of sugarcane plantations. Fruit of the action of Usina BioSev, a sugar and ethanol producer, the margins of Lagoa da Prata reveal the miserable condition to which the river has struggled for almost its entire length: transposition, plundering, amputations. At first silent, contemplative, the images invest in a double path between rescue and denunciation, transgressing as the river's retaliation becomes evident. The public is left, at first, to choose which image to contemplate, which intermittent line to follow, which possible transpositions and ruptures to assume - until it, too, is interrupted by the clear positioning of the work.