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a silent conversation between pieces that acknowledge one another. What is built here is a new space-time: a living Amazonia, one that is told from the inside. It is an Amazonia that will not be explained away and that, precisely for this reason, becomes even more luminous, urgent, political.
In this curatorial constellation, time is circular, made of rain and memory cycles. Space is porous, made of meeting and ebbing waters. And the gaze is multiple, made of reflections. The nine-faceted prism teaches us that every attempt at synthesis is violent, and that there is more power in multiplying than in reducing. This is an exhibition that does not exhaust the question. Quite the contrary; it opens up possibilities.
Amazonia, when refracted through this prism, ceases to be a setting and affirms itself as a subject. An active, ancestral, collective, insurgent subject. A subject who dances with the waters and sings with time. A subject who demands to be heard, but who also offers shelter. A subject who both embraces and confronts. A
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