"Ordem e progresso (A orla negra)", from 2019, belongs to the series "Transmutation", a series that explores the materiality as well as the plastic and conceptual qualities of leadership in an analogy and approximation to alchemical transmutation. "Ordem e progresso (A orla negra)" is a work of a critical nature that invokes the current moment (past and future) in Brazil and its transformations and social implications in a country still deeply marked by the previous military dictatorship.