With White Marble Everyday Clarissa Tossin explores and deconstructs the utopian ideals embodied in high modernism and the particular history of Brasília, the federal capital of Brazil. Constructed to displace the historic capital of Rio de Janeiro in 1960, Brasília has been celebrated internationally for its radical conception of a utopian city, following the master plan of Lúcio Costa and shaped by the visionary architecture of Oscar Niemeyer.  White Marble Everyday focuses on the soaring, sculptural forms of Niemeyer’s Federal Supreme Court Building, while tracking the anonymous laborers tasked with keeping the marble pristine. Tossin finds grace in the elaborate choreography of this arduous and repetitive task, compressing the daily four-hour ritual to less than six minutes. A champion of Brazil’s Communist Party, Niemeyer declared his architecture was “for the people,” but as Tossin demonstrates, his creations can only be sustained by the people Niemeyer claimed to serve.