Mato Seco em Chamas

In 2013, the Military Police Corps of the Brazilian Federal District initiated a large operation against drug traffic in the peripheral city of Ceilândia, dismantling a series of illegal networks. Sixteen men were arrested. A year later, the women take over the streets. They rapidly established their own field of action, imposing other codes, reorganizing modes of production and creating new labor relationships. Their disputes for economic, symbolic and territorial power slowly turn into a war. They claim a space for the peripheral female body and its own codes of action. They are the map for a new territory.