“The exhibition ‘Passeurs’ brings together contemporary Indigenous artists whose works reveal the stories of the past—their worldviews—as well as the historical present of their peoples, asserting their territory within the arts.

Just as trees and plants are cultivated, artists cultivate their paintings. This art is far from naive: it is alive. Belonging, territory, human and non-human spiritualities converge and coexist, to recount events and ways of inhabiting the world in communion with nature.

Ancient knowledge unfolds in the works—true ancestral technologies through which Indigenous peoples keep the forest 'standing.' The works thus appear at the intersection of several fields: they are at once Art and Knowledge, Art and History, Art and Science, Art and Ecology.

Passeurs is thus an invitation to 'delay the end of the world.' " Trudruá Dorrico Makuxi, exhibition curator

The invited artists are: Aycoboo; Jaider Esbell; Duhigó Tukano; Ehuana Yanomami and Joseca Yanomami; Liça Pataxoop; Ibã…