This sculptures arise from the work of the painter Jean-Baptiste Debret, a 19th century French painter that arrived in Brazil in the beginning of that century with the French Mission invited by the regent Prince D. João VI and who revealed his passion for Brazil in his paintings, drawings, aquarelle and engravings allowing the formation of an historical, political, cultural and social vision of the Brazil of the 19th century. Each one of the sculptures is a result of the combination of four elements: wooden tables, eggs, figures, and quotes from Padre António Vieira. The figures portray actions between white and black people that reveal the sexual and social relations between the two. The figures’ insertion into the eggs (in a similar way of what happens in the Faberge eggs) discloses a mechanical, imperialistic and despot side from where a new race was born (mulatto). The association of all this with the quotes of Padre António Vieira (written on the tables) takes us to a rereading that can be inserted in a post-colonial discourse proper to the period we are now living
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