In 2009, I made a video piece using anonymous replies to a question I had posted on a blog: "what is your idea of Brazil?". Now I have asked the same question on a social network. And I used the replies once more, but this time as prompts for an AI. I combined dozens of prompts to construct the image of 'Brazil'.

The resulting piece is an imperfect portrait of a fantasied country. Imperfect as every portrait. Imperfect because there is no way to make sense of a country with so many contradictions. Beautiful and sad, warm and violent, generous and implacable, abundant and miserable.

'Brazil' was finished on the day of the Brazilian elections, which revealed the profound division the country finds itself at the moment. The political fate of this giant country concerns the whole planet: the Amazon rainforest has never been so devastated as during these past few months.

Will this giant country ever wake up to its potentials and live up to all the dreams that it inspires?