ExhibitionNovember 22, 2024
Amazons. The Ancestral Future
The exhibition examines Amazonian culture and vindicates indigenous voices that, through art, thought, science, or activism, propose other ways of living, growing, and relating to nature.
“Amazons. The Ancestral Future” is a sensory journey through the immensity of the rivers and forests, the sounds, the smells, the cities, the rituals, the people, and the life stories of the Amazonian communities. An enormous cultural and natural wealth that today is affected by deforestation, fires, drought, or struggles for control of raw materials, conflicts that the exhibition addresses from the hands of leading scientists and researchers in the region.
Far from providing a folkloric or fatalistic vision of life in the Amazon, the exhibition defends the connection and deep knowledge that Amazonian peoples have of nature and their ancestors. The exhibition not only speaks to us of a valuable culture and ecosystem but also makes us think about ourselves as a society, the fragility of our environment, and the urgent need to recover more respectful ways of living.
Curated by Claudi Carreras, the exhibition includes advice from local experts such as Jõao Paulo Lima Barreto, Eliane Brum, Emilio Fiagama, Lilian Fraiji, Valério Gomes, Nelly Kuiru, Eduardo Góes Neves, Daiara Tukano, Rember Yahuarcani, and Joseph Zárate, as well as participation from the Laboratorio de Aplicaciones Bioacústicas (Laboratory of Bioacoustic Applications) of the UPC, the Fundación Ernesto Ventós, and the Fundación VIST.
The exhibition is a unique opportunity to enjoy newly created works, which have been expressly commissioned to outstanding Indigenous artists and collectives, such as the impressive murals painted in situ in Barcelona by the MAHKU collective, Rember Yahuarcani, Elías Mamallacta and Olinda Silvano and Cordelia Sánchez, the photographs and audiovisual montages by Andrés Cardona or the artistic installation by Santiago Yahuarcani and Nereyda López. It also features the works of Lalo de Almeida, Alberto César Aráujo, Ashuco, Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe, Abel Rodríguez, Marcela Yucuna, William Yukuna, Zecarrillo, artisans from the Bora, Kukama and Urarina communities of Peru, among others.
For more information, visit: https://www.cccb.org/en/exhibitions/file/amazons/243781
“Amazons. The Ancestral Future” is a sensory journey through the immensity of the rivers and forests, the sounds, the smells, the cities, the rituals, the people, and the life stories of the Amazonian communities. An enormous cultural and natural wealth that today is affected by deforestation, fires, drought, or struggles for control of raw materials, conflicts that the exhibition addresses from the hands of leading scientists and researchers in the region.
Far from providing a folkloric or fatalistic vision of life in the Amazon, the exhibition defends the connection and deep knowledge that Amazonian peoples have of nature and their ancestors. The exhibition not only speaks to us of a valuable culture and ecosystem but also makes us think about ourselves as a society, the fragility of our environment, and the urgent need to recover more respectful ways of living.
Curated by Claudi Carreras, the exhibition includes advice from local experts such as Jõao Paulo Lima Barreto, Eliane Brum, Emilio Fiagama, Lilian Fraiji, Valério Gomes, Nelly Kuiru, Eduardo Góes Neves, Daiara Tukano, Rember Yahuarcani, and Joseph Zárate, as well as participation from the Laboratorio de Aplicaciones Bioacústicas (Laboratory of Bioacoustic Applications) of the UPC, the Fundación Ernesto Ventós, and the Fundación VIST.
The exhibition is a unique opportunity to enjoy newly created works, which have been expressly commissioned to outstanding Indigenous artists and collectives, such as the impressive murals painted in situ in Barcelona by the MAHKU collective, Rember Yahuarcani, Elías Mamallacta and Olinda Silvano and Cordelia Sánchez, the photographs and audiovisual montages by Andrés Cardona or the artistic installation by Santiago Yahuarcani and Nereyda López. It also features the works of Lalo de Almeida, Alberto César Aráujo, Ashuco, Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe, Abel Rodríguez, Marcela Yucuna, William Yukuna, Zecarrillo, artisans from the Bora, Kukama and Urarina communities of Peru, among others.
For more information, visit: https://www.cccb.org/en/exhibitions/file/amazons/243781
