In the installation, the artist brings elements from the visual culture of festivities held in public spaces in Curaçao and the region, with plastic chairs used to stake out the territory. During Carnival especially, partygoers can be seen using these chairs in the streets of Curaçao. In this artwork, the artist opts for this far from environmentally friendly resource—also widely used in Brazil—to create a choreography of sorts out of these bodies/objects. Working off the architecture at Sesc 24 de Maio, and accompanied by a video, the installation takes on a performative, theatrical, and dramatic tone. It evokes the sheer power of the collective energy typical of the countries that were colonized in the Americas, which once pooled through festivity or protest, can shake any structure to its foundations.
