Joseca Yanomami and Jaider Esbell take part in the 2nd Bienal das Amazônias: Verde-distância, opening on August 27 in Belém. Curated by Manuela Moscoso, Sara Grazón, Jean da Silva, and Mônica Amieva.
The exhibition presents works by Joseca, in which he visually narrates myths, the world of spirits accessed by shamans, and, in one of them, memories from his childhood. As he describes in the work’s title: “When I was little, I saw an image similar to this one—I once saw Ãyõkõrari, the spirit of the japim-xexéu bird[…]As a child, I would enter a different state and could see the spirits of ancestral animals.”
Esbell’s pieces are paintings created with ink derived from jenipapo, a “fruit-technology and one of my grandmothers,” in the artist’s words. Part of a series first presented in 2021 in his debut solo exhibition in São Paulo, the paintings stem from research surrounding the pajé-tree, which produces the fruit used to create the pigment.
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