This video is part of my Final Graduation Project, presented on June 2019, at the Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo. My will is to consider space with interest on people. A much recognized brazilian cartoonist, Millôr Fernandes, has brought, in one of his drawings, the discussion that is so essential in the work presented here: on a squared paper sheet, Millôr creates the typical modern building facade, so characteristic for its monotonous glass frame. On the top, and almost imperceptible, if it weren't for the speech balloons that read “I wash and you dry”, two workers in the task, as necessary as inglorious, to clean that facade. Are we considering architecture from the perspective of its daily life? The scenario is the Museu Brasileiro da Escultura e Ecologia (MuBE), a space vividly present in the set of images in which we identify the well successful São Paulo's modern architecture. However, which are the conflicts workers face every day?
Having been working at MuBE for almost three years, I noticed my privilege of having the chance to experience, every day, a space that is not usually unfolded to the ones that often know MuBE only by the famous photographs taken by architecture photographer Nelson Kon. I decided to film MuBE under another perspective, which, for me, reveals itself as much more valuable because it can bring to the surface the discussion about architecture images and how they can go far beyond the mere documentary record.