Ka'a Body: Cosmovision of the Rainforest: Curated by Sandra Benites and Anita Ekman

Ka’a Body is the first major, international presentation of indigenous art and culture from Brazil, staged by an Indigenous curator.

It explores the relationship between the body and territory as a way of establishing a dialogue between the indigenous and non-indigenous on the history of the forests and bodies, and articulates various cosmologies of indigenous cultures.

As such Ka’a Body becomes a portal between two distant yet connected worlds: the vast, complex world of the rainforests of Brazil (the Amazon and remnants of the Atlantic Rainforest) and the world of London, also vast and complex, which, as a centre of global capitalism, profited from Indigenous and African labour in these forests on its path to power and dominance.

Paradise Row Projects is a one-year, nonprofit, curatorial project.

Participating artists:

Wera Alcides, AMITIKATXI (Articulação das Mulheres Indígenas Tiriyó, Katxuyana e Txikiyana), Kume Assurini, Denilson Baniwa, Sandra Benites, Kassia Borges (Rare Karaja Huni Kuin, Huni Kuin MAHKU Collective), Anita Ekman, Jaider Esbell, Zahy Guajajara, Iba Huni Kuin (Huni Kuin MAHKU Collective), Yaka Huni Kuin (Coletivo Aimbu), Xadalu Tupã Jekupé, Rita Pinheiro Sales Kaxinawa (Coletivo Kayatibu), Isadora Matos (Coletivo Aimbu), Sandra Nanayna, Macelo Noronha, Pamatoa (Coletivo Suruí), Aislan Pankararu, Ermelinda Bosco Peixoto, Sallisa Rosa, Florinda Martins da Silva, Edu Simões, Acelino Tui (Huni Kuin MAHKU Collective), Daiara Tukano, Gilson Tupinambá, Yakakumalu Wauja (Coletivo Wauja), Andrey Guaianá Zignnatto

With thanks to Dandara Valadares.