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My name is Márcio Almeida,
I am from Recife, Pernambuco,
and I have worked with the visual arts since the end of the 1980s.
The focus of my work's research is the transitory dislocations,
belongings, geopolitics, and occupations of urban spaces.
Over the last years, I have developed research on what are called "compulsory displacements,"
which are dislocations where people are forced out of their homes due to external forces;
social, political, and religious conflicts;
environmental policies; and climate changes, among others.
The work I am showing in this exhibition is called Fast House.
It is a work made in 2012,
and it is a development of another work titled Between the New and Nothing.
Both works deal with questions related to Brazilian housing policies,
and during the development of Between the New and Nothing,
I noticed that when people were forced to move to housing projects,
they often returned to the slums, those illegal spaces.
As a follow-up, I developed a kit with materials with a manual of how to build a shack,
subverting the housing policies,
and facilitating the return of these inhabitants into the spaces of the slums.
The themes I treat in my work are global.
The social, political, and economic contradictions existing in Brazil,
and also its geographical position,
allows the arrival of refugees from Latin America and Africa
to join a great number of Brazilians with similar issues,
making it a vast field for my research.