Entre os Vossos Dentes

Still video · 2025

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✳ Poetic fragment

The poetic section below remains in Portuguese to preserve its rhythm, intimacy, and cultural resonance.

“Dêem-lhe um nome e cortem-lhe a cabeça”, ordenou a figura. E assim foi feito. E assim, virou troféu.


Process notes

This piece was created from a static, unmoving video frame. No image movement — only ambient radio static.

It shows a domestic interior: a lamp, a wig with a small crown, a radio emitting noise, and an open catalog on a yellow armchair. The title comes from the exhibition shown in the catalog: Entre os Vossos Dentes, by Adriana Varejão and Paula Rego — two artists who have powerfully addressed colonial histories and the possession of feminine – or feminised – bodies.

The scene evokes that inheritance.

  • The wig and crown rest together. Perhaps waiting. Perhaps left behind.
  • The radio plays static.
  • The catalog remains open, unread.
  • The light illuminates everything, gently — but only just.

Everything is on: the static, the light, the relics. This stillness is what remains when a body is never allowed to…


Technical information

  • Title: Entre os Vossos Dentes
  • Year: 2025
  • Medium: Still video with ambient sound
  • Duration: 1 min
  • Sound: Original radio static recording
  • Exhibition format: HD video file/installation with monitor and audio loop
  • Status: Available for screening or installation

Closing thought

Memory isn’t only what we remember.

Sometimes, it’s what our bodies keep repeating, without knowing why.