The artist talks about his award-winning works O Brasil and Morte Súbita which was awarded with the O.F.F. Award (granted by the Ostrovsky Family Fund) at the 20th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil. In the video Morte Súbita, it refers to so-called “delinquents” who are detained by the police, an image as common in Brazilian mainstream media as soccer players forming a defensive wall against a free kick. In O Brasil, the artist works with the basic elements of the nationalist marketing strategy of the time of the brazilian civil-military dictatorship to evidence how the discourse and image of a homogenous and pacified country was fabricated. Lauriano states that “nowadays we are experiencing a regurgitation of our colonial past, and of the brazilian dictatorship. We haven’t truly processed these traumas.”
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