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Sebastião Salgado. Yanomami people, from the village of Maturaca, look at the sacred Yaripo, or Pico da Neblina, mountain, the highest in Brazil, in 2014
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Sebastião Salgado. Yanomami people, from the village of Maturaca, look at the sacred Yaripo, or Pico da Neblina, mountain, the highest in Brazil, in 2014
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Claudia Andujar: Yanomami (1970-1972) - ducotedelesta
Nenad Bacanovic - worldartcollection
at Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe's exhibition All This Is Us at MASP in 2023
André Taniki Yanomami Born in Yanomami Indigenous Territory, Brazil, 1949
André Taniki is a shaman born in the region of the Upper Catrimani river, in the Brazilian Amazon. His artistic output is directly linked to his association with artist and photographer Claudia Andujar and anthropologist Bruce Albert. [This and other] drawings by Taniki were done in the late 1970s, in conversation with Bruce Albert, when both were searching for ways to depict shamanic visions. Lushly coloured, the drawings combine abstractions and figurative schemata in structures that seem to represent the organisation of the cosmos from the point of view of the Yanomamis’ sense-universe. Thus, they may be observed as a kind of cartography of that which is visible only to the xapiri – the Yanomami shaman’s auxiliary spirits – and to the shamans themselves. Both the circumstances in which they came to being as well as the drawings themselves stand as relevant expressions of the possibilities of translation and communication between different systems of knowledge and relations.
>> 60th Venice Biennale (LX Esposizione internazionale d'arte di Venezia), 2024
In 1997, photographer Ricardo Stuckert took the top photo of Penha Goes, a 22-year-old girl from the Yanomami tribe, in the Brazilian Amazon.
In 2015 he took another photo of her at 40.
Claudia Andujar, Yanomami
hi, it's me again.
i'm here to talk and beg for you guys to do a favor or just read this post carefully.
a few hours ago i posted a thread on twitter explaining what's happening in brazil with the indigenous tribe "Yanomami".
for those who don't know, i am a brazilian person and this is an extremely sad and cruel thing to hear coming from my country and the people who were here first.
i'd like to ask you guys to at least skim over this thread i made, there's a lot of information including petitions and articles.
(sometimes the link doesn't work so you can just search @swftspX on twitter, the thread is pinned)
you don't have to follow me or like any other posts of mine. just PLEASE. read this.
if you don't want to, i'd like for you to at least see what's happening with the Yanomami people and i'll put some links.
this is them. they're currently suffering from starvation and the brazilian court has openly discussed the fact that the Yanomami people are suffering a genocide due to illegal mining explorations. there has been reports of sexual assault with little kids, miners offering food and gold in exchange of sex with minors and/or their mothers. people dying from diseases since there's barely clean water on their territory and overall it's been hell in there. this happened while Bolsonaro was in command and now they're STILL suffering.
PLEASE. don't let my people die.
articles:
The population suffers with the escalation of wildcat miners' violence in their lands; the attacks continue
The crisis in Indigenous lands in Brazil has deep roots and cannot be resolved with half-measures.
Shaman Davi Kopenawa Yanomami furrowed his brow as he stared out at the skyscrapers and buildings looming through the window of his oak-pane
petitions:
The Yanomami are fighting for their lives. Thousands of armed gold miners have invaded their land and are destroying the forest, attacking t
Punishment for the responsible of the Genocide of the Yanomami People
As miners ravage Yanomami lands, combat-trained environmentalists work to root them out.