“I, Sao Paulo, see myself as a person, therefore I am a person.
I am a schizophrenic one, I am many cities, many persons.
The vegetation is hair and beard on my skin. The spaces between buildings are the pores of my dermis.
The Metro is blood that flows through my arteries, always excited, always mad. Like the muzzle of an alligator, 
Jacaré, who runs, hunts in a tunnel as wide as he is” Writing notes

Urbanofagia, 2020
Documentation of an action: video projection on a wall, (BR, subtitled ENG). 
Dimension 2x1.5 meter.

The action will take place at Pivo in Sao Paulo, during my residency in autumn 2020. It's part of my research Imaginary Urbanism that investigates the agency of the citizens on Sao Paulo and of the city on me as a newcomer.
According to the anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Westerners see the other as an object, instead the Ameroindians as a Person. For the natives, trees, animals and even weather phenomena are persons. Cannibalizing means seeing yourself through someone else's point of view, assuming it. To know means to personify. 

Following the books of Viveiros de Castro on Amazonian cosmology, writing a text about the city of Sao Paulo as if it were a person, a person who turns to me and also talks about my “fears” of living in it, of being an outsider that with public art would like to help paulistanos to change their city.
The action consists of reading this text aloud in front of an audience and then eating it.