On the gallery´s façade, the installation Ocitarcomed spells the word democrático [democratic] backwards. The word is mounted upside down using barbed wire wall protection claws to build each letter. The typography alludes to the letters used by tag graffiti artists which function as ciphered codes that are challenging to read. Marcelo Cidade alludes to the current state of Brazilian democracy as something deformed and imprecise.
On the gallery´s façade, the installation Ocitarcomed spells the word democrático [democratic] backwards. The word is mounted upside down using barbed wire wall protection claws to build each letter. The typography alludes to the letters used by tag graffiti artists which function as ciphered codes that are challenging to read. Marcelo Cidade alludes to the current state of Brazilian democracy as something deformed and imprecise.
