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The works of Luís Santos, Butcheca and Filipe Branquinho urge us to evoke distras, in order to reflect on visual and mental pollution, the social constructions of the genre, the subjugation of the other, and the new forms of colonisation
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When human existence is reduced to the competence of managing the profusion of information, of measuring the capacity of the other to carry the weight of the social construction of the body, and of the social construction of the other, it is time to ask for “distras”.
The works of Luís Santos, Butcheca and Filipe Branquinho urge us to evoke distras, in order to reflect on visual and mental pollution, the social constructions of the genre, the subjugation of the other, and the new forms of colonisation