TARGETS OF VIOLENCE | 2020-21

Since 2009 I have been drawing these targets of violence on different supports and varied compositions, horrified by the news accounts of deaths by so-called accidental shootings that we know to have primarily victimized disenfranchised black youth. In the present iteration, I began a line-by-line count of the growing annual number of deaths by firearms in Brazil, according to data made available by the Map of Violence since 2018. In this work, the years have been shuffled around and the death numbers may be perceived in the varied dimensions of each target, partially visible according to the handling and transparency of the paper upon which they were made.

• China ink on an unbound notebook made of rice paper
• 45 x 120 cm
• EXHIBITIONS: 'Que nosso nome não caia no esquecimento’, Galeria Anita Schwartz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil 

Photo: Gabriel Marigo