Video performance carried out in one of the marble quarries in Vargem Alta, in the interior of Espírito Santo, and results from his experience with local workers. His black body faces the almost impossible effort of carrying heavy blocks of white marble, referring to the physical and historical barriers imposed on racialized bodies. The material, associated with the nobility of the sculpture and its fine forms, here evokes oppression and exploitation through labor, whether prison or slave labor. The repetition of movements—motion, exhaustion, reinvigoration—creates a metaphor for the daily struggle against structural and racial inequalities inherited from the legacy of slavery. By converting this act into a political and poetic gesture, the artist transforms the impossibility of moving the white marble, as a weight of the colonial legacy, into the possibility of artistic creation, based on the impasses inscribed in his own personal and collective background.
