Bathrooms that are closed in an annex to the building, on Esplanada dos Ministérios, were the target of an anonymous intervention that compared them, ironically, to works of art.
The photos began to circulate in recent days in Ministry of Foreign Affairs message groups, as did the elaborate descriptions, which imitate those found in galleries.
When contacted, Itamaraty stated that it would not comment.
In a place where there are two urinals blocked by tape, a paper was pasted on which the “work” would have the title “Interdiction nº 3: Composition in Yellow and Black”.
The text describes the place as a new piece of Itamaraty’s “‘sanitary-conceptual circuit'”, in which the anonymous artist “abandons the modesty of the plastic veil and adopts a more geometric, almost constructivist language”.
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In another location, where three urinals are blocked by plastic bags, the description states that there is a dialogue with the work “Fonte”, in 1917 in New York.
“Diplomacy, always attentive to the nuances of the visible and the invisible, finds an inevitable parallel here. As in international negotiations, there is an ongoing process — perhaps slow, perhaps technical, perhaps eternally provisional — that remains hermetic to the public. The plastic bag becomes an opaque curtain between intention and execution, between protocol and reality”, says the text.
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