separate between politics and aesthetics. Here, art is a way of thinking about the world. It is both gesture and narrative. It is also enchantment, for enchantment is a form of knowledge. The selections made by these nine gazes refuse colonial images of Amazonia. There is no place here for exoticization or oversimplification. There is presence, complexity, and texture.
Every walk through the space of the exhibition becomes a journey, a dive into territories that extend from the banks of great rivers to the depths of forests, from ancestral knowledge to complex practices that reconfigure the ways in which we think about contemporary Amazonia. Here, visitors are invited not only to engage with their eyes, but also their bodies, minds, and hearts. The narratives unfold in different formats, creating an immersive experience that challenges the limits of what we view as art.
Visitors are also invited to decelerate. Amazonian time is not the time of the clock. It is ebb-and-flow time. The exhibition advances this different register of time, one that allows
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