daniela mercury has said that "canibália is an embrace, a swallow of tropicália, the clube da esquina and everything that has since been created in the arts in brazil since the – ‘semana de 22’ [‘semana de arte moderna de 1922 ’-the week of modern art] – i yearn for the liberty that comes from this anthropophagic movement, of the cannibalist manifesto by oswald de andrade and its practice by mario [de andrade), who spoke that these mixtures reinforce our [brazilian] identity".