122 in 2024

122 in 2024 is a memorial, both as a place of remembrance (a gravestone) and as a civic marker (a monument). It consists of a slide show of 122 photographs of faces from ancient sculpture, where each one stands for a Trans person who has been assassinated this past year in Brazil.[1] The number of pictures changes every time the work is exhibited, to reflect changing statistics. Its best iteration would be its disappearance.

Many of the sculptures used in the work were originally meant to reinforce social values, be it power, wealth, or high achievement, (their subjects were, for example: politicians, landowners, athletes.) Here those faces represent those without the backing of their own community. Those faces now mourn the ones who are ignored and whose deaths are not collectively lamented. A forgetting that is violence.

The work was created as part of a larger project, ‘Crimes Against Love,’ started in 2009, which investigates homophobic violence.

[1] https://antrabrasil.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/dossie-antra-2025.pdf

312 in 2013

(312 Brazilians were killed in 2013 just for being gay.  This is a memorial for them: one photo of a scarred ancient sculpture for each individual)