My Story Let Me Tell It — Act II, 2026
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My Story Let Me Tell It — Act II expands the phrase first introduced in Act I from a single reflective surface into a suspended spatial installation composed of 53 serial plates. Each element carries the statement “Minha História Deixa Que Eu Conto” (“My Story Let Me Tell It”) and is covered on both sides with mirrored adhesive vinyl.
The 53 plates occupy distinct vertical positions, with their centres progressing from 48 to 256 cm above floor level in fixed increments of 4 cm. This interval corresponds to the effective height of the phrase itself. The sequence produces a continuous vertical field of reading rather than organising the work around a single conventional eye level.
The vertical modulation was developed from documented anthropometric references, relationships between stature and eye level, and different bodily postures, including wheelchair users. These parameters are translated into the formal structure of the installation. Bodily variation is therefore not represented as an image or theme; it participates directly in determining the spatial organisation of the work.
Because the plates are suspended individually, they admit slight movement and rotation. Reflected image, language, body and architecture consequently enter into changing relationships as viewers move through and around the installation. The mirrored surfaces do not produce a single stable image, while the repetition of the same first-person statement across multiple heights multiplies the positions from which it can be encountered and read.
Act II displaces the question of narrative authorship introduced in Act I into spatial organisation. The statement remains the same, but its conditions of encounter change: reading now depends on height, position, distance, movement and the relationship between the viewer’s body and the architecture of the exhibition space.
The installation challenges the use of a single standard viewing height as an implicit measure of the exhibition body. Instead of establishing one privileged line of sight, it distributes the statement across a continuous sequence of vertical positions. Accessibility operates here as a material and compositional principle: not as an additional or compensatory device, but as part of the structure through which the work is organised.
Within My Story Let Me Tell It, Act II transforms narrative sovereignty into a spatial practice. The authority to narrate oneself is no longer articulated only through language on a reflective surface; it is also tested through the physical conditions under which that language can be encountered, read and occupied in space.
Exhibitions
Insisting on Existing: Protocols of a Public Studio, solo exhibition, critical text by Kamilla Nunes, SOMA – People & Culture, Curitiba, Brazil, 2026.