![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c4c512ad4dd489e671544f2dcccee6bdf5a7c4eee24788f4596b61a2f69c6a20/genocidio_1.jpg)
genocídio #1 (genocide #1), 2015
audio two channels
variable dimensions (Duração: 25 min.)
voices: Lucas Beda e Marcos Felipe
recording and mixing: Aecio de Souza
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/139fad58c07a9022423fb27cba1b29c8cfc15676f68da07f5d172d6c6c34891f/genocidio_2_1.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/679a5139a0570e92953b243d0e4290243425c86e2cb5e0ae9ca64058555a5688/genocidio_2_2.jpg)
genocídio #2 (genocide #2), 2015
black pemba on wood (naval plywood) and 7 Catholic imagery (Sr. do Bonfim, Santa Bárbara, Sant’Ana, São Jerônimo, São Jorge, Nossa Senhora da Conceição, São Lázaro)
24 x 80 x 20 cm
photo Galeria Leme
Drawn Umbanda points where the Orisha symbol is overlaid with its correspondent Catholic Saint statuary. Exalted by many as a feature of Brazilian culture, syncretism comes from an act of violence, as the Portuguese colonizers imposed to the enslaved Africans a mandatory worship to the Catholic Saints. In order to articulate a resistance slaves relativized the forces of their Orishas with their equivalences in the Catholic Saints.