Carreau du Temple, Paris, June to July 2005
Curator
The exhibition showed 90 stools collected in the last two decades from 17 indigenous peoples living in the Brazilian Amazon – Asurini, Bakairi, Kayabi, Kalapalo Kamayura, Karaja, Kuicuro, Matipu, Mehinaku, Suya, Tapirapé, Tukano, Wai-wai, Waura, Wayana-Apalaí, Yawalapiti and Yudjá. Held in the context of the Brazil Year in France, it occupied the Brazil Space, a place chosen by the Brazilian Ministry of Culture to concentrate various attractions. The Indians wisely turn the elements of nature surrounding them to make the objects they need, including wood, resins and dyes they employ to make their furniture. The attitude is not predatory, but rather a reverential respect to the forest where they live. In Indian tribes, the natural and man made environment do not collide, but are harmoniously integrated. Collection Rubem Pereira de Avila and exhibition design by Ronaldo Barbosa.
