WHAT REMAINS IS THE FUTURE
“We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.” Patti Smith
CONVERSAS NA RUA 2025
In a sociocultural context where practices of care are often interrupted or weakened, this figure rises as a symbol of resistance and belonging. It is not a representation of a child or of a village, but rather a configuration of the body as a fertile territory; an ontological and symbolic space where life is sown, cultivated, and sustained, protected by the latent strength of an invisible community that supports it.
The hands, marked by the earth, hold the vase as one would guard a promise. The plants that germinate within it are living heirs to the roots that spread through the soil, establishing an organic bond between the figure, the garden, the place, and collective memory.
Partial nudity, far from being read as fragility, asserts itself as a gesture of presence and agency; a living body, bearer of marks and narratives, that offers itself to light and to the gaze as a testimony of its own historicity.
The work questions and re-inscribes the concept of care, understanding it as a formative process built through shared gestures and affective bonds. At the same time, it reveals the instinctive strength that rises against any attempt at violence or rupture of this vital cycle.
Because to protect is also to cultivate, and to cultivate is, inevitably, an act of resistance.