The Belle Époque in Brazil was marked by the coffee and rubber economic cycles. At the end of the 19th century, Belém was at its height as one of the richest cities in the country. In Belle Époque, Armando Queiroz re-configures different layers of time as he manipulates iconographies. The beetle that fails to cling to the eye, as though claiming its place in that body, activates the memory of cycles that go from apogee to decline, from sophistication to decadence, from memory to oblivion.
