«Aside from a few city guidelines that
prohibit things like profanity and
nudity in a
public space, we've allowed the artists to be free in their interpretation,» says Bryant.
Even after the Ministerio Publico Federal (the Federal Prosecutor Bureau) declared that no crime had been committed in any of the above - mentioned cases and issued a technical note clarifying that
nudity and representations of sexuality are permitted in cultural and artistic exhibitions, the consequences continue to unfold: the state of Espirito Santo has passed a law
prohibiting the exhibition of photographs, texts, drawings, paintings, films and videos containing nude scenes or references to sexual acts in
public spaces; city councilors of the state of Rio Grande do Sul are currently trying to ban books in
public libraries that, they argue, expose children to «permissive ideologies, [detrimental] to the formation of character.»