The work includes more than 170 reproductions of works by the internationally recognized artist (b. Rio de Janeiro, 1964), as well as critical essays by Silviano Santiago, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Karl Erik Schollhammer, Luiz Camillo Osorio, Zalinda Cartaxo. The book covers the last twenty years of her art . Varejao's work revolves around themes of Portuguese colonization, the tiles and the use of the human body as an aesthetic element.