# rioutópico, notes of a requiem for the wonderful city

Abstract

This article is about the installation #rioutópico, made by Rosângela Rennó at Instituto Moreira Salles (IMS, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and the book of the same name, which configures another media in which the artist's work unfolds. In the photographic images, both at the exhibition and in the book, we see a space delimited by political relations, in which the right to citizenship underlies between hope and disenchantment. The auspicious names of the suburban communities in Rio de Janeiro contrast with the political, legal and cultural conditions imprinted on the bodies of those whose citizenship is always at risk, as well as their own lives. The photographs of #rioutópico were taken by residents of communities in Rio de Janeiro and show us a part of the city that is almost never seen or heard. Therefore, the work presented shows the contrast between the dream of owning a home, installed in a place where peace, security and happiness reign and the precarious conditions of most of the spaces and beings photographed.