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Since 2010, Márcia Beatriz Granero (São paulo, 1982) develops videos that weave short narratives starring Jaque Jolene, a fictional character interpreted by herself. This anachronistic figure appears in several urban contexts and, more recently, has been seen in explorations of the exhibition spaces of São Paulo. After repeated visits and a research on the place, the artist elaborates a script of actions, without speech, that assimilates the syntax of the classic cinema - in the frames, sound tracks and principles of assembly; and in the gestures and expressions of staging. Fiction is the medium the artist encountered in colliding elements of the history and functioning of institutions with the obsessions of her person. In Lacuna, it is Instituto Tomie Ohtake that receives a visit from Jaque Jolene. In the fragmentary narrative, the sound space is as important as the staged actions, and the imagery presence of the building imposes itself on its dynamics of use.