The performance took place in Berlin as part of the EXI|STATION ASP project - a six weeks of site-specific research, setting up and setting down every day a temporary space in a public square in Lichtenberg, getting to know the surrounding residents and engaging with the neighborhood.

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To develop this piece, the artist curated a collection of phrases gleaned from personal experiences and the other collaborators. The phrase, "I have nothing against immigrants, but they should live as we do", stood out as an emblem of discrimination, and emerged as the central theme in her creative process, bringing to the forefront the following questions: What does it mean to belong or not to belong to a place? What is it like to occupy this place as a foreigner in this square? What do these same words we know mean to each of us? Immigrant - woman - Brazilian - artist? How to create new meanings and rewrite narratives?

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During the performance, phrases were artistically reimagined by the performer donning a long white dress, a symbolic act that was further accentuated when the dress was completely washed of its message in the main fountain of the square as the performance unfolded. 

 

The project was funded by the Lichtenberg District Office and Draussenstadt.