ExhibitionFebruary 12, 2020
Claudia Andujar, The Yanomami Struggle
The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain announced the largest
exhibition to date dedicated to the work and activism of Claudia Andujar. For over five
decades, she has devoted her life to photographing and protecting the Yanomami one of
Brazil’s largest indigenous groups. Claudia Andujar first met the Yanomami in 1971
while working on an article about the Amazon for Realidade magazine. Fascinated by the culture of this isolated community, she decided to embark on an in-depth photographic essay on their daily life after receiving a Guggenheim fellowship to support the project.
Based on four years of research in the photographer’s archive, this new exhibition curated by Thyago Nogueira for the Instituto Moreira Salles in Brazil, will focus on her work from this period, bringing together over three hundred photographs, her audiovisual installation as well as a series of Yanomami drawings. The exhibition will explore Claudia Andujar’s extraordinary contribution to the art of photography as well as her major role as a human rights activist in the defense of the Yanomami.
It is divided into two sections reflecting the dual nature of a career committed to both art and activism. The first section presents the photographs from her first seven years living with the Yanomami, showing how she grappled with the challenges of visually interpreting a complex culture. The second features the work she produced during her period of activism, when she began to use her photography as a tool among others for political change
Claudia Andujar was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, in 1931 and currently lives and works in São Paulo.
exhibition to date dedicated to the work and activism of Claudia Andujar. For over five
decades, she has devoted her life to photographing and protecting the Yanomami one of
Brazil’s largest indigenous groups. Claudia Andujar first met the Yanomami in 1971
while working on an article about the Amazon for Realidade magazine. Fascinated by the culture of this isolated community, she decided to embark on an in-depth photographic essay on their daily life after receiving a Guggenheim fellowship to support the project.
Based on four years of research in the photographer’s archive, this new exhibition curated by Thyago Nogueira for the Instituto Moreira Salles in Brazil, will focus on her work from this period, bringing together over three hundred photographs, her audiovisual installation as well as a series of Yanomami drawings. The exhibition will explore Claudia Andujar’s extraordinary contribution to the art of photography as well as her major role as a human rights activist in the defense of the Yanomami.
It is divided into two sections reflecting the dual nature of a career committed to both art and activism. The first section presents the photographs from her first seven years living with the Yanomami, showing how she grappled with the challenges of visually interpreting a complex culture. The second features the work she produced during her period of activism, when she began to use her photography as a tool among others for political change
Claudia Andujar was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, in 1931 and currently lives and works in São Paulo.
