Agrade’s work has many layers. There is a type of poetic research in her work that needs to be understood. As a whole, Agrade makes a commentary on the different experience that people have in Brazilian society, and particularly underlines the experience of the poorer communities that live in separation to the rest of society. There are particularities in the way that black communities have lived in Brazil. Even though they did not have laws of segregation, the reality of social separation was and remains very bad. Entire cities are organized on the basis of this separation between communities.

In this work, Agrade uses a variety of symbols. The first is the use of the fence/grid.
Agrade is depicting how it looks walking around a middle-class neighborhood and seeing a lot of these kinds of fences. The symbol or meaning of these fences are clearly telling the viewer that they are not allowed here and that they do not belong. In Brazil there is this idea of a black person’s “place” and where they “belong”. This is a pejorative way of talking about the black population. Additionally, we also see that the residence is separated on the street using barbed wire fences.

When you connect both works of this dyptich you see the circle symbol that works as a window, looking into this societal occurrence. Agrade is also thinking in terms of painting, and how to talk about this narrative but at the same thinking of the aesthetics of contemporary painting.