Terra preta
- exhibition
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vernissage
Featuring artists Uýra Sodoma and Gê Viana.
« Fighting for the forest means fighting against patriarchy, against femicide, against racism, against gender binarism, and against the idea that the human being is at the center of everything. »
Eliane Brum, « Banzeiro Òkótó », Éditions du sous-sol, 2024.
The Amazon forest burns in a frenzied noise; chainsaws cut down centuries-old trees, the Belo Monte dam dries the Rio Xingu, and gunfire falls the bodies of forest peoples and their defenders. The fire serpent spreads deeply through the language of the corporatocene, shaking the earth's core.
Terra preta, the black soil, sedimented over millennia, is woven from the legacy of an ancient, symbiotic human activity. An immemorial game of alliances and balance between original peoples and the forest created this rich and fertile soil. Voices from within invoke elemental forces, care for ecosystems, and honor beliefs and substantive teachings in a life impulse.
Through critical and sensitive dialogue, the artists explore Brazil's colonial history, celebrating connections to the land and deconstructing symbolic assignments in powerful iconographic representations.
Good to know
Exhibition from May 14 to 31, 2025. Opening on Tuesday, May 13 at 6 PM.
Organized as part of the Brazil-France 2025 Season in partnership with Passages Transfestival. Multiple supports from regional and cultural entities.
Automatically translated from French.
Where does it take place?
Octave Cowbell
4 rue du Change
57000 Metz
France
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