This two-minute video (which can be found via the artist's website by <a href="http://en.jaimelauriano.com/justica-e-barbarie">clicking here</a>) shows images of present-day lynchings in Brazil. Along with the images, Jaime Lauriano includes the text of disturbingly celebratory comments that readers posted on mainstream digital news articles about these lynchings.
Semi-public violent spectacles also occurred under the military dictatorship. Lauriano writes: “Such practices can also be found in torture sessions during the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship. Some of these sessions had an audience of people from the most diverse sectors of civil society who, through the purchase of a ticket, attended sessions of rape, shocks, beatings and other various human rights attacks.”
[Photo: Joca Duarte. Used with permission.]