Two people who lived in colonial Brazil continue on as spectral presences in present-day Rio de Janeiro. They are Catarina, a royal handmaiden who arrived in Brazil along with the Portuguese Court in 1808, and Eseú Agoa, one of the four million African slaves forced to cross the Atlantic and into a life of slave labor in Portuguese America. Throughout this fantastical and allegorical narrative, the pair continues to linger in a dilapidated colonial manor, cut off from the outside world, where they uphold the daily liturgy of the old Court, reenacting the rituals of the nobility. However, they both find themselves disturbed from without by an encroaching present and a resurgent past.

Selected project in the BrLab, 2016