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Dictatorship Never Again is a political performance done in collaboration with my grandmother, Julia Kodato. It connects the present to the past; resisting against Jair Bolsonaro's government by re-telling stories from my grandma's life during the military dictatorship - established in Brazil in 1964, lasting 21 years until 1985.
The performance is a conversation between the two of us. She is telling me about her story while I am shredding newspaper - the "Bible" of daily life knowledge - and recycling it into new, blue, paper. Blue as the colour which takes us to, as my grandma would say, "immeasurable magnitudes; like the sea, the sky; which guides us to the limits of hope, and to the perspectives of a liberating world."
The project also includes a poster, made from newspaper paper, and wheat pasted on Main street.
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![wheatpaste copy.jpg](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e763da_575969987433404b9d83ced6a253e08f~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_114,h_147,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,blur_2,enc_auto/wheatpaste%20copy.jpg)
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