Temporary exhibition
© Liça Pataxoop
PASSEURS
curatorship by Trudruá Dorrico Makuxi
with Aycoboo ; Jaider Esbell; Duhigó Tukano; Ehuana Yanomami et Joseca Yanomami ; Liça Pataxoop ; Ibã Sales Huni Kuin, and the Huni Kuin APOTI association
APRIL 17 – JULY 18, 2026
“Toosh toosh, macuuxi pa uurî, uyesé Trudruá Dorrico. Wakri’pe wanã
Amîrinikon pokom’be nî yenin.
Morî’be aweporikon’pe wanã yuse wai.
Moroobai uurî’kon eborito’pe kona’rî: pemonkon pam’bê, oma’kon pam’bê, uyekiton’pambê.”
“Hello, I am a Makuxi woman and my name is Trudruá Dorrico. It’s a pleasure to meet you...
It’s a pleasure to be here with you. I hope you are happy to have met me, and that we may always meet again: as human beings, as animals, as spirits.”
The exhibition
"All the artists in this exhibition have been shaped and influenced by their education and lived experiences within their communities—a connection that is reflected in their works.
In this regard, although the style may at times evoke a so-called “naïve” aesthetic, we are dealing here with an art form whose conceptual framework differs from the modern Western paradigm. The works recount Indigenous peoples’ relationship to the forest and to different worlds, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous.
Belonging, territory, and human and non-human spiritualities converge and coexist within the framework of the work, narrating events and ways of inhabiting the world in communion with nature.
Ancient knowledge unfolds here—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."
Trudruá Dorrico Makuxi
A Conversation with Frans Krajcberg
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.
Passeurs is thus an invitation to “delay the end of the world.” Trudruá Dorrico Makuxi
© Aycoobo
A Conversation with Frans Krajcberg
The dialogue with the artists invited by Trudruá Dorrico Makuxi—most of whom are internationally renowned—unfolds within an intimate relationship with Nature, one that Frans Krajcberg also shared: a direct relationship, without hierarchy among living beings, respectful of the visible and invisible forces that govern our world. The exhibition invites us to open our eyes, minds, and hearts to learn how to look at and see Nature... in order to better protect it.
Frans Krajcberg, like the artists exhibited here, advocated for the end of the opposition between Nature and Culture, in order to support a life in harmony with our environment. Thus, the exhibition, to borrow the words of Ailton Krenak, is a call to “reforest”: to become aware that we are Nature and to draw inspiration from the forest to rethink our relationship with the world, with the goal of balance, exchange, and respect for one another.
Capucine Boutte, Deputy Director
of the Espace Frans Krajcberg
© Jaider Esbell