For this exhibition
a trailer park down the road with an unconventional local reputation
its adoption as a fundamental right by leaders of the social welfare state in the mid-century and its decline - as both idea and reality - in the 1960s and '70s
as well as the banal ways in which we utilise that day in domestic life
Ana Paula Maia: On Earth As It Is Beneath Edward W. Said For this exhibitionCharco Press, 2025, softcover, 112 pages, 13. 3 x 19. 6 cm On land where enslaved people were once tortured and murdered, the state built a penal colony in the wilderness, where inmates could be rehabilitated, but never escape. Now, decades later, and having only succeeded in trapping men, not changing them for the better, its operations are winding down. But in the prisons waning days, a new horror is unleashed: every full moon night, the inmates are