Nazaré do Mocajuba: a perspective from Auslander and Ulrich’s points of view (original) (raw)

On this paper I analyze the work “Nazaré do Mocajuba”, created in 2004 and 2005 by the Brazilian artist Alexandre Sequeira. It is composed of several pieces of cloth, such as bed linen, tablecloths, mosquito nets, among other pieces, given to him by local villagers, along with images of their previous owners silkscreened on them. A series of photographs, resulted of the combination of these silkscreened portraits in an open-air exhibition on the banks of the river Mocajuba, in front of the house of each inhabitant photographed, is also presented as part of the work.