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EATING DIRT  
2024
4.49'

By Isabella Ogeda
Director of Photography Dudu Mafra

Actor Direction Mateus Lana

Production ACME Prod. 

Assistance Manot Pessoa

Styling Lau Pessoa

Done in 2024, Eating Dirt brings a tender performance by the artist, in which she consumes a the ashes of the collection of Rio de Janeiro's oldest scientific institution, The Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro.

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The consumption of the body is the final step in a series of complex ceremonies and functions as a symbolic reintegration of a deceased entity. Through this act, the artist sacrifices the individuality of the body by binding it to the things that were left in the fire. 

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As Anna Maria Maiolino says, she "allowed (herself) to be eaten as a 'sacred enemy', to be digested and expelled (...) as a cannibal version of myself". And finally, through the act, Isabella brings the matter to them in the opposite direction.