Map of the Third World's south-southeast island, 2011.
DiMoDA 3.0 - 3LD, New York, June 2018. Work on display by Shane Mecklenburger.
In indigenous time there is a notion of sequence, a before and an after, but this does not imply a fixed boundary between the past and the future, which, instead of being separated by the present, would be both contained within the now.
House demolition at Vila Autódromo (© Luiz Claudio Silva / Museum of Removals collection).
Dja Guata Porã exhibition, Museu de Arte do Rio, 2017-8.
Today, the ruins of houses and collective equipments that were destroyed became part of the museum's collection and of what the residents call a memory route, along which several signs were installed to evoke spaces that existed in Vila Autódromo before the evictions.
In opposition to the objects collected from the rubble of Providência, the archaeological finds that a century ago had been thrown there as leftovers now performed singularity, flaunting the strength of those who, in a gesture of insubmission to gravity and oblivion, had returned to the surface.
© The Kremer Museum
