“YUPIRUNGÁWA”
The Amazon, its people, its cultural diversity, its biological diversity, its rivers, streams and its green forest has an origin!
Yupirungáwa, meaning “origin” in the indigenous Nheengatu language, reveals the relationship between ancient populations and the Kaa (forest), the Amazon. Thus, the rich biological diversity of fruit and medicinal plants and palm trees found in indigenous territories are intertwined with the walk and footsteps of ancient populations, who built their story in dialogue with life around them, leaving a legacy of knowledge about the forest through fishing, hunting, plant domestication and the search for shelter.
Yupirangáwa (origin) reinterprets archaeobotany, through a dialogue between Vandria Borari, indigenous ceramicist from the Borari Alter do Chão territory and Myrtle Pearl Shock, Ph.D in anthropology and researcher in the Amazon, who focuses on the relationship between man and plants in the Amazonian past. Yupirangáwa (origin) reinterprets archaeobotany, through a dialogue between Vandria Borari, indigenous ceramicist from the Borari Alter do Chão territory and Myrtle Pearl Shock, Ph.D in anthropology and researcher in the Amazon, who focuses on the relationship between man and plants in the Amazon past
The Project presents the representation of three Amazonian seeds carved in ceramic and with a charred appearance, such as: Bertholletia Excelsa (Brazil nut), Asrocaryum vulgare (tucumã) and Byrsonima crispa (murucí da mata). The result of archaeological research into figures of botanical remains found in the archaeological sites Porto, in the city of Santarém, and in Caverna da Pedra Pintada, in Monte Alegre, in the state of Pará, in the Amazon.
Many archaeological sites are identified in areas of terra preta, and for us indigenous peoples, these places are areas of residence, fields, rituals and the making of indigenous art, where ancient people lived. These areas represent sacred places of silence and respect, where our ancestors rest. According to archaeological studies, through sites we seek to understand the relationships between the environment and socio-cultural processes, the establishment of population migration processes and the consolidation of ethnic borders. Like this,The archaebotanical records consist of a resilient and forest manipulation system of current populations linked to ancient peoples in the Amazon.
The artistic project YUPIRANGAWÁ - 2022, was the final result ofSPECULATIVE ECOLOGIES.
Group exhibition "THIS IS A FOREST", Leeds, England, 2023.
COP28 Health Pavilion. DUBAI, 2023.
