[ainda] or [still] is the title of the exhibition on the lived lives of women and communities in the ten years of the Zika epidemic in Alagoas.

The exhibition , launched on 3rd December 2025, is composed of photographs, objects of memory and testimonies.

The Zika epidemic marked Brazil as a rapid emergency in public health calendars — declared in 2015 and "closed" a few months later. But the official end never accompanied the lived end. For the calendars of public health, it was a brief crisis; for the women, children, and communities affected, it remains an ongoing time —inscribed in their bodies, homes, and daily lives.

The exhibition was launched in Maceió, Alagoas, North East Brazil, produced by the association of Zika families Associação Famílias de Anjos do Estado de Alagoas (AFAEAL) with After the End partner Anis Instituto de Bioetica, and the University of Brasilia. The exhibition is about the life lived after that experience and each of the memory objects were chosen by the women.

It is this unfinished time of survival and reconstruction that animates the exhibition, an intimate and poetic portrait of the lives of women in Alagoas after the Zika epidemic.

Visitors are invited to move through spaces of memory and affection —the bedroom, the home, the hinterland, the periphery. Each object, in its raw materiality, evokes both the domestic and the ritual, revealing the persistence of life in the midst of loss.

The exhibition is the result of a collective creation between researchers, artists, and the women whose experiences it holds, in collaboration with the Women and Memories Committee. It invites reflection on care, endurance, and the temporality that exceeds closure.

The title, [still], is itself a concept: the brackets hold what is preserved and resists erasure — what insists on being remembered, what survives at the margins of official history. These are gestures and memories that persist in small things: a newborn’s bathtub, a hospital cap, a pair of tiny shoes —relics of lives that continue to tell their story.