Artists perform at street performances banned by Witzel O Dia

Rio – The group of artists You are a Madwoman, who had Sunday staged banned by the State Department of Culture of Rio, on the night of Monday, the same setting scene, to protest what he called censorship The act took place in front of the House France-Brazil, a state government institution in which the activity was promoted at the Center, before the government's ban.

Governor Wilson Witzel (PSC) baderted that the cause of the veto was: complete nudity of a character. Although she responds to the justification, the actress wore a dress and lingerie. The military police was also there. Initially, ten police officers from the 5th BPM visited the scene. According to the deputies, the intention was to prevent the act because there was no authorization from the town hall.

At 6:25 pm, however, artists throw thousands of plastic badroaches on the paving stones of a pedestrian street in front of the France-Brazil house. and the actress – dressed – stood between them. A tiny box next to it sang, in an almost imperceptible volume, speeches by President Jair Bolsonaro, including the exaltation of Colonel Brilhante Ustra (1932-2015), former leader of the DOI-Codi SP during the dictatorship (1964- 1985)

. The scene referred to the testimony of former political prisoner Lucia Murat. In 2013, she told the National Truth Commission that the torturers had "placed roaches" around her body and put a badroach in her bad.

No member of the collective has granted interview

The staging would close the exhibition Literatura Expositora. The curator, Alvaro Figueiredo, called the ban on censorship. In an interview on Sunday, the governor of Rio denied having censored the lawsuit.

The curator Álvaro Figueiredo posted on Facebook an email received Thursday, but said that he had not been able to execute the contract, (10) of the France-France house Brazil. In the text, the institution demonstrated that she knew that the performance was going to happen, to such an extent that she demanded that only the 18 year old majors could help her.