On the gallery’s façade, the visitor is faced with a single, standardized image. The work O grid e a grade [The grid and the fence] (2020) is an appropriation of an image that circulated in all newspapers in Brazil on the date of the impeachment trial of Dilma Rousseff, in 2016, when the Esplanada dos Ministérios was divided by a railing, separating the people for and against the process. In this gigantic grid of repetitions, Cidade dissolves the problem embedded in the image, creating an optical dilution, a visual discomfort.
On the gallery’s façade, the visitor is faced with a single, standardized image. The work O grid e a grade [The grid and the fence] (2020) is an appropriation of an image that circulated in all newspapers in Brazil on the date of the impeachment trial of Dilma Rousseff, in 2016, when the Esplanada dos Ministérios was divided by a railing, separating the people for and against the process. In this gigantic grid of repetitions, Cidade dissolves the problem embedded in the image, creating an optical dilution, a visual discomfort.
