Steps of Endurance – Ka'a Pûera: we are walking birds

Exhibition Review • Arts of the Working Class
Brazilian Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia



In 120 years of the Venice Biennale and the ups and downs of national representations, it is the first time that Brazil's official participation is exclusively created and curated by Indigenous artists. The pavilion has been symbolically renamed from being “Brazilian” to being “Hãhãwpuá”, stressing that Portuguese is as secondary as any national state label. Brazilian identity and the Portuguese language are, however, taken over not by one Indigenous replacement, but by many...

...Visitors are kept on their toes as foreign words of varied origins gesture a resistance from the kind of simplifications that risk turning Indigenous worldviews into a single, pasteurized entity.... read the entire article online at Arts of the Working Class: https://artsoftheworkingclass.org/text/steps-of-endurance



Image credits
 Photo 1: Installavion view, photo by Cecilia Vilela; photo 2: Glicéria Tupinambá and Community of Tupinambá da Serra do Padeiro, Okará Assojaba, 2024. Photo by © Rafa Jacinto / Fundação Bienal de São Paulo.