Priscila Leonel takes clay and argil as a way to redeem her ancestrality on african-brazilian contemporary pottery. Argil, a very common material in her atelier, is a very specific type of clay, that turns into ceramic after a process called “queima” (burn), in which her dolls stay on a stove that can get to 1280 …
Marivaldo’s most important job is the rescue of ancestrality, collective conscious and cultural heritage. He belongs to the third generation of ceramists and became a specialist in reproducing archeological pieces from Goeldi Museum, most known as Marajoara art. The original ceramics are from 1.400 – 400 A.C. and were made by the original inhabitants of …
Tapajonic Art was lost. It remained buried deep by the colonizers imposed culte and genocide of native peoples. The Tapajós Tribe occupied a territory by the Tapajós River, on the amazonic region. Nowadays, the few descendant’s of it’s kind can be found in Santarém. Only by the recent discovery of archeological remains, these people could …
“Bugre” has it’s root meaning in “heretic”. It was the name colonizers used to call indians. By that time, because they were not christians, the indian peoples were considered soulless, not human. Leslie’s art reproduces the quotidian life of the indians peoples who lived in the region she’s from, nowadays called Mato Grosso do Sul.