Antigone in the Amazone

Allegorical piece about violent destruction and displacement

Together with his team, Rau travelled to the Brazilian state of Pará, where the forests are burning to make way for soy cultivation and where capitalism is devouring nature. On an occupied piece of land, the team, in collaboration with the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra, the world's largest organization of 'landless people', creates an allegorical piece about the violent destruction and displacement by the modern state, which values private property over traditional law on land.