Title: Tropical trauma misery tour
Edited by: Rafael Roncato
Photographer(s):
Writer(s): Rafael Roncato
Designer(s): Mateus Acioli
Publisher(s): Mas Matba,Istanbul, Turkey, The PhotoBookMuseum, Köln, Germany
Lovely House, São Paulo, Brazil, Alter Edições, São Paulo, Brazil
Year: 2024
Print run: 1000
Language(s): English, Portuguese
Pages: 352
Size: 10,5 x 16 cm
Binding: Softcover
Edition:
Print: Mas Matba,Istanbul, Turkey
Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Brazil,2018
ISBN: 9788585039189
In 2018, Bolsonaro was stabbed during a presidential rally campaign. Against a backdrop of polarization, micro-narratives, and misinformation, The Myth starred in an online political campaign where he had complete control over his narrative and self-presentation. This tour investigates how the ambiguity of the stabbing event exposes the network propaganda in the Brazilian political game.
Through a speculative documentary photography practice, this piece overcomes the political illusions and dissemination of non progressive values of digital populists. The fictionalization of the real is a form of resistance toward such ideological shams and manipulations. It devolves into a meta-play, a farce within a farce.
How could it happen that this mediocre, misanthropic proto-fascist become president and manoeuvre his country to the brink of democracy?
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