Indi-Gestão

In this performance, the artist ingests her own voter registration card. The act transforms a bureaucratic document into organic matter, shifting it from the domain of institutional identity to that of the body.

The title Indi-gestão operates as a double meaning in Portuguese, evoking both “indigestion” and a fractured notion of management or governance. Through this gesture, the work reflects on the uneasy relationship between the individual body and the structures that claim to represent it.

By eating the document that certifies civic participation, the performance collapses the distance between political identity and physical existence. What once functioned as proof of citizenship becomes something to be metabolized, rejected, or absorbed.

The act suggests a political system that is difficult to digest, where participation, representation, and authority circulate in unstable forms between institution and body.