Galdino
2011
Print
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Collection: Courtesy of the artist.
Brasilia, 1997: a group of rich teenagers set fire to a man sleeping at a bus stop. His name was Galdino and he got lost the day before from his fellow Indians who had come to Brazil's capital as an official delegation for an audition at the Ministery of Justice. (Read a newspaper article about this)
Guga Ferraz brought Galdino's presence to Rio pasting these life-size images of an indian in an arms-exchanging cerimony on the walls of the city, now re-creating the collage on the walls of the M HKA.
