Castle - Playful form made of sand. A symbol of resistance. A fortress created by the fear of one’s own territory. Life contained by walls and metal fences.Part of Liquid Beach series:As hut owners begun to be expelled from the sands of Salvador’s beaches, their resistance took shape through umbrellas and plastic tables, mythical symbols of the local culture. Their colorful shapes erected against the gloomy horizon set the stage for a visual dictionary of the country's social-economic history, each title referring to an issue yet to be resolved.Liquid - Drinkable amorphous substance. When ingested in despair causes drowning (or drunkenness). Humanity’s current state according to Bauman. Quality of the blood that flows.Beach - Brazilian history’s primordial stage. Where work, leisure and belief mingle. Where blood is boiled, poured and mixed. From where one can see the horizon and feel “saudade”. Where umbrellas arise as sculptures above the sand, watching over the people as saints and orixás.
Gentile Feast - Prophetic event of the nation in which Caetés Indians devoured Bishop Pero Fernandes Sardinha after his shipwreck on the Brazilian coast, as remembered by Oswald de Andrade in his Anthropophagic Manifest.Part of Liquid Beach series:As hut owners begun to be expelled from the sands of Salvador’s beaches, their resistance took shape through umbrellas and plastic tables, mythical symbols of the local culture. Their colorful shapes erected against the gloomy horizon set the stage for a visual dictionary of the country's social-economic history, each title referring to an issue yet to be resolved.Liquid - Drinkable amorphous substance. When ingested in despair causes drowning (or drunkenness). Humanity’s current state according to Bauman. Quality of the blood that flows.Beach - Brazilian history’s primordial stage. Where work, leisure and belief mingle. Where blood is boiled, poured and mixed. From where one can see the horizon and feel “saudade”. Where umbrellas arise as sculptures above the sand, watching over the people as saints and orixás.
Ibirapitanga - Tupi word meaning red tree, also known as Brazilian Wood. So abundant it was mistaken for the land (and dyed it’s children). Part of Liquid Beach series:As hut owners begun to be expelled from the sands of Salvador’s beaches, their resistance took shape through umbrellas and plastic tables, mythical symbols of the local culture. Their colorful shapes erected against the gloomy horizon set the stage for a visual dictionary of the country's social-economic history, each title referring to an issue yet to be resolved.Liquid - Drinkable amorphous substance. When ingested in despair causes drowning (or drunkenness). Humanity’s current state according to Bauman. Quality of the blood that flows.Beach - Brazilian history’s primordial stage. Where work, leisure and belief mingle. Where blood is boiled, poured and mixed. From where one can see the horizon and feel “saudade”. Where umbrellas arise as sculptures above the sand, watching over the people as saints and orixás.
Maria - Our Lady of the Conception, Mother of Heaven and Earth, catholic patroness of Brazil.Janaína - Iemanjá, Mother of Waters, orixá worshiped under the blue mantle of the Virgin Mary in Afro-Brazilian syncretism.Part of Liquid Beach series:As hut owners begun to be expelled from the sands of Salvador’s beaches, their resistance took shape through umbrellas and plastic tables, mythical symbols of the local culture. Their colorful shapes erected against the gloomy horizon set the stage for a visual dictionary of the country's social-economic history, each title referring to an issue yet to be resolved.Liquid - Drinkable amorphous substance. When ingested in despair causes drowning (or drunkenness). Humanity’s current state according to Bauman. Quality of the blood that flows.Beach - Brazilian history’s primordial stage. Where work, leisure and belief mingle. Where blood is boiled, poured and mixed. From where one can see the horizon and feel “saudade”. Where umbrellas arise as sculptures above the sand, watching over the people as saints and orixás.
Pelourinho - Colorful neighborhood made specially for tourists. The term originally named a stone post feared by slaves, used for public humiliation and whipping.Part of Liquid Beach series:As hut owners begun to be expelled from the sands of Salvador’s beaches, their resistance took shape through umbrellas and plastic tables, mythical symbols of the local culture. Their colorful shapes erected against the gloomy horizon set the stage for a visual dictionary of the country's social-economic history, each title referring to an issue yet to be resolved.Liquid - Drinkable amorphous substance. When ingested in despair causes drowning (or drunkenness). Humanity’s current state according to Bauman. Quality of the blood that flows.Beach - Brazilian history’s primordial stage. Where work, leisure and belief mingle. Where blood is boiled, poured and mixed. From where one can see the horizon and feel “saudade”. Where umbrellas arise as sculptures above the sand, watching over the people as saints and orixás.
Freedom - Spiritual freedom, the liberation of sin out of the native’s flesh, genocide. Human freedom, the end of slavery, farce. Utopian freedom, the yell at the banks of Ipiranga River, silence.Order and Progress - Positivist motto present on the national flag, but without Love (first and foremost).Part of Liquid Beach series:As hut owners begun to be expelled from the sands of Salvador’s beaches, their resistance took shape through umbrellas and plastic tables, mythical symbols of the local culture. Their colorful shapes erected against the gloomy horizon set the stage for a visual dictionary of the country's social-economic history, each title referring to an issue yet to be resolved.Liquid - Drinkable amorphous substance. When ingested in despair causes drowning (or drunkenness). Humanity’s current state according to Bauman. Quality of the blood that flows.Beach - Brazilian history’s primordial stage. Where work, leisure and belief mingle. Where blood is boiled, poured and mixed. From where one can see the horizon and feel “saudade”. Where umbrellas arise as sculptures above the sand, watching over the people as saints and orixás.
Cross - Painful shock of opposing forces. An instrument of torture used by Jesuit missionaries. A mark left on the land: city of Brasília.Part of Liquid Beach series:As hut owners begun to be expelled from the sands of Salvador’s beaches, their resistance took shape through umbrellas and plastic tables, mythical symbols of the local culture. Their colorful shapes erected against the gloomy horizon set the stage for a visual dictionary of the country's social-economic history, each title referring to an issue yet to be resolved.Liquid - Drinkable amorphous substance. When ingested in despair causes drowning (or drunkenness). Humanity’s current state according to Bauman. Quality of the blood that flows.Beach - Brazilian history’s primordial stage. Where work, leisure and belief mingle. Where blood is boiled, poured and mixed. From where one can see the horizon and feel “saudade”. Where umbrellas arise as sculptures above the sand, watching over the people as saints and orixás.
Saudade - Untranslatable Portuguese term. A vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist, for something other than the present. The love that remains.Part of Liquid Beach series:As hut owners begun to be expelled from the sands of Salvador’s beaches, their resistance took shape through umbrellas and plastic tables, mythical symbols of the local culture. Their colorful shapes erected against the gloomy horizon set the stage for a visual dictionary of the country's social-economic history, each title referring to an issue yet to be resolved.Liquid - Drinkable amorphous substance. When ingested in despair causes drowning (or drunkenness). Humanity’s current state according to Bauman. Quality of the blood that flows.Beach - Brazilian history’s primordial stage. Where work, leisure and belief mingle. Where blood is boiled, poured and mixed. From where one can see the horizon and feel “saudade”. Where umbrellas arise as sculptures above the sand, watching over the people as saints and orixás.
Caboclo Cafuzo Mulato - Arbitrary terms designating mixed races (Europeans and Indians, Indians and Africans, Africans and Europeans, respectively) that were used to consolidate racism as a form of social oppression. Yet, red is the color of our blood.Caboclo - One of Umbanda’s entities: a well-intentioned ancient indian spirit.Mulato - From the Portuguese word mula (mule), the hybrid offspring of a horse and a donkey.Urucum - Tupi word meaning red. Seed of an homonymous tree rubbed by Indians on their bodies to provide protection against sun rays and insect bites. Forgotten color of the national flag. As red as bloodPart of Liquid Beach series:As hut owners begun to be expelled from the sands of Salvador’s beaches, their resistance took shape through umbrellas and plastic tables, mythical symbols of the local culture. Their colorful shapes erected against the gloomy horizon set the stage for a visual dictionary of the country's social-economic history, each title referring to an issue yet to be resolved.Liquid - Drinkable amorphous substance. When ingested in despair causes drowning (or drunkenness). Humanity’s current state according to Bauman. Quality of the blood that flows.Beach - Brazilian history’s primordial stage. Where work, leisure and belief mingle. Where blood is boiled, poured and mixed. From where one can see the horizon and feel “saudade”. Where umbrellas arise as sculptures above the sand, watching over the people as saints and orixás.
Oca - Tupi word meaning house. Wood construction covered by vegetal fibers used by Brazilian indians as a home for one or more families.Part of Liquid Beach series:As hut owners begun to be expelled from the sands of Salvador’s beaches, their resistance took shape through umbrellas and plastic tables, mythical symbols of the local culture. Their colorful shapes erected against the gloomy horizon set the stage for a visual dictionary of the country's social-economic history, each title referring to an issue yet to be resolved.Liquid - Drinkable amorphous substance. When ingested in despair causes drowning (or drunkenness). Humanity’s current state according to Bauman. Quality of the blood that flows.Beach - Brazilian history’s primordial stage. Where work, leisure and belief mingle. Where blood is boiled, poured and mixed. From where one can see the horizon and feel “saudade”. Where umbrellas arise as sculptures above the sand, watching over the people as saints and orixás.
