Horst Hoheisel displays a set of 434 rods. The number is a reference to the National Truth Commission; the rods themselves visually allude to the children’s game “pickup sticks”.
“He puts photos and sections of the biographies of some of the dead and disappeared on the sticks, which are in an ambiguous position, between Flúvia’s totem poles and the contortion of torture,” Seligmann-Silva says. Other rods carry newspaper clippings or the biographies of the torturers themselves.
[Photo: Joca Duarte. Used with permission.]