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Cirandas I
(1993)

Installation.
Video projection, sound, silkscreen on the walls, grafitti in the bathroom, bullets, wood coffin
and list of violated children
Exhibited at Intar Gallery, New York.

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Cirandas I, looks at these children through the eyes of three Brazilian activists. Although taking photographs is usually the starting point of my working process, this time I realized that I didn't want to photograph these children`s lives without having established a relationship with them. Thus, I add to my images of children, collected through the years, photos, stories and moments given to me by these three activists. 

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Cirandas is an extended project examining violence against children in Brazil and the United States. For several years, I have been collecting material on all aspects of children`s rights, and in February 1993,I spent two months in Recife, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro gathering material for Cirandas I, a word meaning the innocent play of children moving and singing in a circle. 

 

Josely Carvalho

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Cirandas is a series of installations also presented as Cirandas II at Museu de Arte Contemporânea de São Paulo (MAC-USP), São Paulo. Brazil,1994 & Cirandas III at Galeria do Instituto de Arte, Universidade de Brasília (UNB), Brasília, Brazil, 2004.

This series is cited in the following texts:

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