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Marilá Dardot (b. 1973, Belo Horizonte) is a Brazilian visual artist whose multidisciplinary practice engages deeply with language, literature, memory and cultural history through media including installation, video, sculpture, photography, prints, actions and public interventions At the heart of her work is a persistent investigation of words and texts, not just as carriers of meaning, but as visual and conceptual elements that shape how we understand time, identity and collective narratives. She often extracts words from their original contexts, from newspapers, books and signage, reconfiguring them into new forms that reveal historical erasures, repetitions, overlaps, and the ephemerality of news and memory. Marilá Dardot (b. 1973, Belo Horizonte) is a Brazilian visual artist whose multidisciplinary practice engages deeply with language, literature, memory and cultural history through media including installation, video, sculpture, photography, prints, actions and public interventions At the heart of her work is a persistent investigation of words and texts, not just as carriers of meaning, but as visual and conceptual elements that shape how we understand time, identity and collective narratives. She often extracts words from their original contexts, from newspapers, books and signage, reconfiguring them into new forms that reveal historical erasures, repetitions, overlaps, and the ephemerality of news and memory. In exhibitions like ainda sempre ainda, language becomes both subject and material: monumentalized text on façades or arranged objects prompt viewers to become spectator-readers, creating new images and meanings as they engage with the words. Dardot also explores literary references and collaborative actions, such as participatory libraries and public projects that foreground voices erased from dominant histories, and she often invokes political and cultural themes, including censorship, gender and the dynamics of power in collective memory. Across her work, the written word becomes a poetic and critical device to reflect on how culture, language and history are produced, remembered, and transformed.