Os Raimundos, os Severinos e os Franciscos1998, video installationDias & Riedweg
This work tackles issues pertaining to habitation, urban space, and immigration. The project invited immigrants from Northeastern Brazil, who work as doormen and janitors in residential buildings in the city of São Paulo, to present their workplace and their lodgings in the building. Conceived for the 24th Bienal de São Paulo, the theme of which was anthropophagy, the piece deals with the ethical cannibalism that drives the relationship between social strata in the capital of the state of São Paulo. The representation of meager, small rooms in building garages, where the doormen live, worked as a metaphor for the social invisibility of this group.