Concept: Bete Esteves and Beth Franco | Editing: Bete Esteves and Bernardo Palmeiro | Camera: Bernardo Palmeiro | Sound: Rogério Souza | Support: Laís Dias - Chapa workshop. | The historical traces amalgamated during the research for the exhibition “Ancestral Treasures of Peru” gave rise to the work “Plastic Deformation Techniques”. The video was structured as a desire to express the indignation aroused by reading the historical novel “The Cursed Gold of the Incas” by the social scientist Lúcio Martins Rodrigues and is justified by both juxtaposing and bringing together realities, temporal distances, and spatial locations. Hammering, laminating, cutting, embedding, drilling, engraving, repoussé, chiseling, and engraving are the verbs that deform matter and bring us closer to the force of the moment of conquest. The jeweler's hands lend the uniqueness of the task and embody the (un)making of the Inca Empire, traversed by the impressions experienced by a soldier of Pizarro.