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BRASIL


2004

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BRASIL
2004

Xingu

"Yes, I do believe in God: Naijib, he's my grandfather." Nadia

Abstracts

"The flight of Indians inland, their massacre, and the reluctance of Jesuits to hire them on plantations, led the Portuguese to import African 'labor' from the 16th century onwards. The first Quilombo communities, clusters of 'brown slaves', emerged at the start of the 17th century. The Quilombos, chased to the extremities of Minas Gerais and Goiás, were nicknamed the 'Kalungas', derived from a pejorative African term that became a synonym of 'negro' in Portuguese.

The Indians who preceded them on these remote areas initially showed wariness towards them. Little by little, the pacifist attitude of the Black people, and evidence of their sharing a common enemy, became a source of complicity and spawned mixed-race descendants. In this way, the Kalungas created a self-sufficient society with no notion of individual land ownership and with a model based on ecological balance."

Extract from Zoé Zoé, Femmes du mondes, 2007, Éditions Gallimard

Works

BRASIL 3154
Nadia Artiste, 2004

Xingu, Brazil
Silver print turned sepia
36 x 23 cm

BRASIL 3134
Nadia Artiste 2, 2004

Xingu, Brazil
Gouache on paper
65 x 42 cm

BRASIL 3136
Nadia Artiste 3, 2004

Xingu, Brazil
Gouache on paper
42 x 66 cm

BRASIL 3138
Nadia Artiste 4, 2004

Xingu, Brazil
Gouache on paper
66 x 42 cm

BRASIL 3148
Nadia Artiste 5, 2004

Xingu, Brazil
Gouache enhanced silver print
30 x 24 cm

BRASIL 3150
Nadia Artiste 6, 2004

Xingu, Brazil
Gouache enhanced silver print
30 x 24 cm

BRASIL 3132
Nadia Natural, 2004

Xingu, Brazil
Silver print turned sepia
62 x 90 cm

BRASIL 3152
Nadia Natural 2, 2004

Xingu, Brazil
Gouache enhanced silver print
30 x 24 cm

BRASIL 3146
Nadia Natural 3, 2004

Xingu, Brazil
Gouache enhanced silver print
20 x 30 cm

BRASIL 3144
Nadia Natural 4, 2004

Xingu, Brazil
Gouache enhanced silver print
55.5 x 70 cm

BRASIL 3142
Kamajuras, 2004

Xingu, Brazil
Gouache enhanced contact sheet
30 x 24 cm

BRASIL 3158
Village des Kamajuras, 2004

Xingu, Brazil
Gouache enhanced silver print
57 x 85 cm

BRASIL 3156
Kalapalos, 2004

Xingu, Brazil
Gouache enhanced silver print
24 x 30 cm

Maps

BRASIL 1963
Map of Brazil, 2004

Gouache on paper
80 x 120 cm

BRASIL 1964
Map of Xingu, 2004

Pencil on paper
46 x 37 cm

Making-of

Film by Marc Jampolsky

Images by Eduardo Aguier

Books

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