UNTIL SUNDAY 17/9
MuVIM. Quevedo, 10
Too much room for the collection of photographs that capture trips through the Amazon by Rodrigo Petrella. The indigenous world in post-Amazonian times is the photographic record of twenty years of Amazonian visits that teach the cultural and natural wealth of this ecosystem of universal value and its constant degradation due to climate change and the plundering of natural resources. The decolonial perspective that Petrella wanted to give to the project is evident in the fact that he asked the Xavantes – an Amerindian ethnic group that lives in a region of Brazil – what they expected him to photograph.. They replied that his memory was threatened and that's what he tried, incorporating notes made by the Xavantes into their photographs to support their memories. In the exhibition you will find the dark side, a great panorama of mountains destroyed by mining exploitation, but Petrella also invites you to sit on a log in the middle of the jungle to listen to the birds, and to meet the inhabitants of the lungs of Latin America. S.M.
