Loot Box. André Pereira, Hetamoé and Mao.

32 pages, paperback cover (side reading), black-and-white; in English; 29.80 x 17.50 cm. Massacre.

This is a catalogue and essay around a collective exhibition by the three artists of the Massacre collective that took place in the atrium of the FCT Nova Library, which presented projects of what could be called "expanded graphic narratives" as installations and/or art objects, involving drawing, video, sculpture, installation but always allowing a "reading" of the same pieces from protocols tried in comics. From the gaming concept of "loot boxes" (reductively, "prize chests" that can be found, conquered or, worse, bought in electronic game environments), the exhibition brings a series of questions about the relationships between the imaginative possibilities of these same games and the industrial-capitalist logics that they end up imitating, curtailing the imaginative freedom from which they started. Especially when the "virtuality" of games ends up significantly affecting, with "real", tangible and central consequences, the societies in which they take place.