Yara Pina

Names without bodies (2021)

shadow beaten with shovel and covered with ashes

from the names of missing persons  in Brazil

traces of action

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The action Nomes sem corpos, Names without bodies, deals with the processes of disappearance, destruction and concealment of bodies, as a strategy of war, repression, extermination, punishment and territorial power. Such practices that were used as a method of repression by the Military Dictatorship continue to be, today, perpetrated by police officers, militiamen, extermination groups and drug traffickers. Victims who disappear without a trace after being kidnapped, tortured and executed, as a way of erasing the traces of their identities, histories and the causes of their deaths. During the action I attack my shadow with a shovel, focusing mainly on the face, to leave marks that will later be covered with the ashes of the names of missing people in Brazil.