"Sobrevida" is a series that relates the possibilities of resisting nature, both in the places where ecosystems are supposed to be "preserved", and in the small cracks of cities where - despite the cement - they insist on small miracles.
This work seeks to relate situations where nature shows itself as strangeness, resistance, resilience, domestication and power. We are facing serial environmental crimes in Brazil. Public policies that refer us to the dictatorship period have been revisited. Amid world pacts for the preservation of the environment, much is discussed, but little is done to curb global warming. How long will we insist on an antagonistic look at our green areas? How long will lives be worth nothing? This is a question about the growing objectification of nature in the midst of a scenario of hyperactivity, environmental destruction, water scarcity and disrespect for human rights.The work began in 2017 in the Amazon, at the Adolpho Ducke Reserve of INPA (National Institute for Amazonian Research) during the artistic residence LABVERDE, in Anavilhanas National Park and in the city of Presidente Figueiredo, in Amazonas; in 2018 in the cities of Belo Horizonte, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Fort Lauderdale (USA) and in 2019 new works were done in the Atacama Desert (Chile), Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park (Goiás) and Brumadinho (Minas Gerais). Older archival images were incorporated into the series, such as those made in 2007 in Siem Riep, Cambodia.