Each curator becomes a star with its own radiance, but connected to a broader mesh. And the exhibition affirms itself as a collective sky where visitors may orient themselves, lose themselves, and find themselves once again.
Art, in this exhibition, is no ornament. It is worldmaking technology. Through it we are able to glimpse the possible intertwinements of memory and future. In every artistic gesture there pulsates a wisdom that spans generations.
Facing this veritable universe, the visitor is invited to go on a crossing. No passivity is possible in the face of Amazonia açu. It beckons us to hear with our whole bodies, to rethink the ways in which we inhabit the world, to decolonize the senses. Each step through this exhibition is an opportunity to unravel certainties, to open up inner clearings, to acknowledge the fact that art can be a sort of forest. A forest one cannot traverse without being transformed.
In the intermeshing of Amazonia’ s nine territories, curatorship becomes collective composition. A chorus of languages and affects,
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