Ao som do mar e a luz do céu profundo: these words from the Brazilian national hymn were once carriers of happiness and pride. Today, the bright green, yellow and blue of lush tropical nature turned grey and brown, as the Amazon is turning into ashes and as mud devastated the areas of Mariana and Brumadinho after the dam collapse caused by the cold greed of powerful mining companies. The stars in the Brazilian sky are fading as the country’s corrupt politicians adopt their northern neighbor’s value system and trade the country for the sake of immediate interests, negating and annihilating at the same time all that represents the otherness, erasing the roots of a country to the profit of a blind neo-colonial logic. In a moment where populism and far right seem to prevail in Brazil and in the world, Ao som do mar e a luz do céu profundo present artworks from four Brazilian artists that question the very concept of national identity and the traditional narratives that are associated to it, while making an attempt to restore the initial message of freedom and justice that flags are initially meant to convey.