Good evening.
So this TEDx taught me one thing,
which is the authorship of thought.
We have lost, in the last decades, the authorship,
the ability to see and do things in a unique way.
And with me, how to transform the house into a work of art,
was in my childhood, in Novos Alagados, there in Plataforma, an area of stilts,
in a house that we stayed.
This house had books, records, works of art.
And in this house, our hearts were changed,
because poverty is not a lack of culture.
The most important houses in our lives
are defined by the simplicity that comes from culture.
And for that reason, the house then became for me a unique place, a place of aura.
The house is not banal, it is the space of intimacy, of encounter, of life.
It is of paramount importance in the cultural universe of the city,
with its symbolic functions.
A house can not be vilified.
A house is a place of knowledge production.
A house is the space from which the life of the city emanates.
And the house as a work of art is nothing more than
than the revelation of the mystery that we, each of us, have.
Because we came from a house.
And of a mythical house, which has its own poetics,
which was created with effort, with sacrifice,
and the creation, in time,
reveals the effort of multiple hands, dreams, investments,
with the force that comes from life.
The house protects and shelters in all dimensions.
And art expands our possibilities of being.
And every house must be made
so that this beauty shines in the city.
But there are people who do not realize the greatness of living in a house.
with this intensity.
And they live banal.
They do not even realize the strength that this house has.
Create a collection in our house, on the slab,
was the opportunity to take our home from banality.
And enable the emergence of poetic
which, until then, we did not even realize existed.
And making the collection of the slab, we began to educate a community,
and began to educate a population.
And began to educate artists,
and began to educate an elitist city
who thought that museums should only be in the center of it.
And educating a city is to receive this city in your home.
And bringing art home has protected us from violence,
it brought us out of anomie and stigma.
And created new symbolic fields, which are protecting children and adolescents,
schools and students who are going to visit this collection.
Just to tell you, the unlikely exists.
That the unlikely exists, and that we have to believe in our dreams.
You have to believe that when you buy a work of art from an artist in your city,
and this work is in his house,
and people come, and have the contact with that unique authorial work,
this allows the residents, creators and artists,
who are exponents of the wound opened by the encounter with beauty,
say that this is your operative way of taking care of other people’s lives.
Because art makes us take care of other people’s lives.
It is not only the decoration of a house, but it is this generous heart that we have;
because we received from other people who preceded us,
so that our home was this work of art.
How do you create a house as a work of art?
First it is a residence, it is a human place, to receive human persons,
and since the human deserves everything good, beauty has to be present in it.
It is a cultural exhibition space, it is an authorial work, it is unique, it is elaborated;
we have thought and loved the house, and its architecture innovates.
And the narrative about how to transform the house into a work of art is, precisely,
try to indicate the following: I studied violence, in the masters and in the doctorate,
and I received no one.
When we began to discover that what protects us from violence is beauty,
this began to flood the city of Salvador.
And then we did the Ocupa Lajes, me, Leandro Souza and Vilma.
And in Occupy Lajes people could take this proposal
to several slabs of the city of Salvador,
of the periphery, with workshops, exhibitions, and artistic interventions,
and this showed that, yes, it is possible.
And this idea changed the face of Salvador
from February to June this year.
Please, the video.
(Video) (Music)
(Applause)
So that’s it, this connected TEDx, to connect people, is this people.
I think we have to believe in the ideas that we have,
and have to learn to love the city that we have
and the artists we have.
Because when we do these actions, we are protecting lives.
which have always been excluded from the historical and artistic circuits of the city.
So, Occupy Lajes I think it was this gift to the city,
and we expect to connect so many people, thousands of people, through art,
both at the Bienal da Bahia and at the São Paulo Biennial,
as in the Occupy Lajes, it is to say the following:
believe in your dreams.
And believe in the authorship of the thinking and the way of elaboration that you have.
Because that’s what makes our difference in this piece of land called the world.
Good evening.
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