Festival dos Povos da Floresta
How can curation and spatial design challenge stereotyped Amazonian representations, create spaces for intergenerational dialogue, and support community-led narratives?
My curatorial work for Festival dos Povos da Floresta brings together artistic practices from Indigenous, quilombola, riverine, peripheral, and urban communities across the Brazilian Amazon.
The project travels through five Brazilian capitals and includes painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, installation, digital media, virtual reality, performance, and Indigenous graphic traditions.
The curatorial process focuses on the relationships between works, places, artists, and audiences.
The exhibition brings together different experiences of Amazonian life. Ancestral practices appear alongside digital media. Urban perspectives coexist with riverine and forest-based experiences. Territory, memory, technology, ancestry, environmental change, and contemporary life move across the exhibition in different forms.
My work includes curatorial research, experience design, artist dialogue, exhibition development, public engagement, and coordination between artworks, audiences, exhibition sites, and the wider cultural program.
