Working in a broad variety of media, Rivane Neuenschwander’s practice relates multiple art histories—popular, folkloric, and fine art—to everyday production. Her work permits autonomous forces to impact her practice, those of other people as well as non-human actors such as animals or the environment. She often collaborates with surrounding communities to explore affective relationships. In an early participatory project that led to the installation Quarar, she worked with teenage girls who met daily to discuss their dreams, wishes, intimacy, and comfort, shifting the focus from homelessness-related trauma. Quarar, a Brazilian term for sun-drying laundry, also symbolizes healing and restoration. Domestic materials and ritual seawater washing became acts of physical and emotional cleansing.