“Universal Representation Is Utopian”: Erica Malunguinho Talks About Urban Equity


Erica Malunguinho. Photo © Nego Júnior

Erica Malunguinho. Photo © Nego Júnior

When crossing a space, a body carries within it many meanings. The reading that translates into this person-architecture dialogue, and the sensations that arise from it, demonstrate much of the social inequality and violent structures intrinsic to the Western imagination, which privileges the same standard: the white man. Finding a place of rebalancing in which it is possible to create an alternation of power —in race and gender – is a commitment by Erica Malunguinho.

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