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Video installation commissioned for the exhibition 'Women in Struggle!'

'Archives of political memory', curated by Ana Pato, for the Memorial da Resistência de São Paulo, a place that operated as a prison during the Brazilian Civil-Military Dictatorship, and which today is a reference center for the documentation, preservation and communication of memories of repression and political resistance in Brazil.

The guiding thread of the work is the Memorial's oral history collection, which forms part of the Regular Testimony Collection program, with testimonies from women who experienced state violence during the Civil-Military Dictatorship (1964-1985) and during the Democracy.

The video installation is the editing work of 22 testimonies from women, 60 hours of material, which Bianca transformed into 56 minutes, with the following cut: 'How do women fight?, 'What are they fighting for?', and 'What are your stories?' The video installation was conceived in the form of archive screens, fragments of a memory that is constituted from the collectivity of narratives, and above all from the support of orality through listening.

Composing the edition of testimonies, in the form of video mapping, fragments of the recordings were edited, suggesting a conversation circle in which women support each other based on their stories, in a listening score, strengthening their struggles.