Body of Evidence

Review By Bromer Gallery:

A multimedia, journalistic response to the climate of white privilege and fragility surrounding and in the aftermath of the 2016 election. Cordeiro, an immigrant from Brazil, found herself perceived as an other, often with fearful consequences. To cope with and express her story, she bound together evidence of her path as an immigrant and a woman: diary entries; quotations from Rebecca Solnit, Emily Dickinson, William James, Agnes Martin, and Fernando Pessoa; and variously printed images of Northern Manhattan, Cordeiro’s neighborhood and historically an immigrant sanctuary. The resulting compendium is a nonlinear narrative of questions without answers, tenuous but persistent hope, and the crooked balance of self-reliance with dependence on those who perhaps see others as a threat. A brave work, embodying the experience of immigration and xenophobia, especially towards those who are undocumented.