[DIG_A.HIS.08294_002 / Enregistrament sonor] Audiodescripció "Sonhos Yanomami [Yanomami Dreams]"
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[DIG_A.HIS.08294_002 / Enregistrament sonor] Audiodescripció "Sonhos Yanomami [Yanomami Dreams]"
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[DIG_A.HIS.08294_002 / Enregistrament sonor] Audiodescripció "Sonhos Yanomami [Yanomami Dreams]"
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MPEG
duration
1:11
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English
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© MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
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Enregistrament sonor
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2.74 MB

When Swiss-born artist Claudia Andujar arrived in Brazil in 1955, the Yanomami people, like many other Indigenous groups, had no territorial or political recognition. She made her first journey to Yanomami lands in 1971 and from then on became a committed activist for their cause. In 1978 she set up the Pro-Yanomami Commission (CCPY), helped demarcate Yanomami territory and delivered a petition to the Brazilian government, which finally recognised their land rights in 1992. Her photographs, including those that inspired "Sonhos Yanomami" in 2002, testify to this lifelong commitment. This series is a photographic polyptych that explores the relationship between Yanomami cosmology and the world of dreams: a cosmic vision in which dreaming is intimately tied to spirits and nature, as well as to a perception of reality beyond the visible. In Yanomami culture, all living beings are understood as interconnected: nature is experienced as part of oneself and engaged with in a harmonious, non-instrumental way.

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