2024rio de janeiroJúlio Otonibrazil
nossa júlio otoni
in English: “our Júlio Otoni”
A Point of View at a child’s eye level: noticing what serves as a landmark, naming what feels reassuring or intriguing, turning details into stories.
- formats
- mediums
- place
- rio de janeiro · Júlio Otoni
- partners
- Júlio Otoni Community Center
- public presentation
- Exhibition at the community center and in the alleyways.
In the Júlio Otoni favela, the project was aimed at children, in connection with the community center. The process fostered attentiveness, self-expression, and confidence, while producing rich, sensory material about the neighborhood: how it is used, its tiny corners, the ways people move through it.
“The Júlio Otoni community is in the Santa Teresa neighborhood. It's small and calm. The residents stick together,” the children write. “Here there's the football pitch, the bakery, bars, a pizzeria, a barber's, the Pracinha and the community center. We love sport: judo, capoeira, kickboxing, football and jiu-jitsu.” The photographs, the mapping and the sound interviews became an exhibition at the community center.
The images and stories came back to the community center and onto the walls of the favela.
the exhibition
nossa júlio otoni, wall by wall
Four panels of photographs titled by the children, with their words in Portuguese: games, friends, the community course, the entrance to the community.
wall 01
belligal
Ele está fazendo uma posição de um jogador. Eu escolhi essa foto porque é eu.
queimado
Ele vai queimar alguém. Eu escolhi porque a foto é linda.
chute
Ele está chutando uma bola.
pezinhos
Eu amei. Eu vejo pés.
wall 02
eu manu
Eu escolhi essa foto linda, perfeita, maravilhosa porque sou eu na foto. Euuu!
mulher na rua
uma aluna do curso comunitário
Uma aluna que não vive sem uma foto.
a comunidade
Esta é as pessoas. Olho o Pedro, a Manu e o Fael.
wall 03
eu lívia
Eu escolhi essa foto porque sou eu e porque eu sou linda e maravilhosa. É o lugar do meu curso !
colegas do curso
Eles são os mais educados e amigáveis!
pessoas legais
Eu amei essa foto. Tá muito linda.
moto
Essa moto é muito linda.
wall 04
campo
Nessa foto tá todos os meus amigos reunidos.
na entrada da comunidade
Tia Lica, Enzo, Rena, Pedro, Alessandra, Paulo Ivo, Paulo, Ágatha e Fael.
o rena
Vejo o Rena em algum lugar bonito.
photographs and captions: the children and young people of Júlio Otoni
in pictures
photos: the workshop participants and the mOst team
public presentation · 2024
at the community center
The prints were hung in the yellow room of the community center: the children found their own photos there, and their neighbors'.
photographs and captions: the children and young people of Júlio Otoni
the exhibition
Thirteen pages: the children's text, the portraits, the titled and narrated photographs in Portuguese, then the hanging and the workshops.
