Based on a historical research, the artist selected 48 mottos and slogans from different federal administrations and statements from popular demonstrations from various moments in the Brazilian history, ranging from “Independência ou morte” [Independence or death] to “Não vai ter golpe” [There will be no coup]. The sentences are painted on exhibition panels by advertising painters, who used to paint political advertisements on walls around the city. Overlapping each other in layers of paint (coating), the sentences cover but never completely erase one another, similar to the advertisements on the walls of the city. Dardot thus emphasizes the imbrication between memory and oblivion that sustains the many historical layers that make up the present without never completely fading.