​RUMOR
Class in comics. 2025

DRAWINGS, VIDEO & SOUND  Patrícia Lino​
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RUMOR names a class in comics made to widely share Patrícia Lino's infrareading of "Amor", a well-known poem published by Oswald de Andrade in 1927. The poem is part of the equally known Brazilian book titled Primeiro Caderno do Alumno de Poesia. Similarly to every poem in the volume, "Amor" is composed by (the expected) text and a (more unexpected and also childish) drawing. Not surprisingly, critics have ignored the enigmatic drawing that habitates the page and how it obviously influences the text's form and amplifies the word game's meaning. 

Among other things, RUMOR asks, how can we solve this?, and answers by both looking at the silent and silenced drawing and including Marcel Duchamp's first readymade in the conversation.

The questions and conclusion introduced by RUMOR were previously published as part of the essay IMPERATIVA ENSAÍSTICA DIABÓLICA. INFRALEITURAS DA POESIA BRASILEIRA EXPANDIDA (Brazil, 2024). RUMOR transforms the density of the original text orally and visually with the sole purpose of making it more accessible — and, of course, fun.