Opavivará!

Rio de Janeiro (RJ)

Eu <3 Camelô [I <3 Peddler], 2009

Faixa de Areia [Sand Strip], 2009

In 2009, the authorities of the city of Rio de Janeiro imposed the “shock of order,” a set of rules limiting the scope of vendors at the beaches of the city. As a response to that, Opavivará!, a collective that recurrently implements urban-space-themed actions, created the Eu <3 Camelô campaign. For this, it produced a series of eight postcards and distributed them at the beaches. They showed portraits of street vendors alongside the campaign slogan. Faixa de Areia, a soundscape of the Rio beaches, builds the atmosphere to the discussion advanced by the group.

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