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Indigenous artist and activist Denilson Baniwa produces photographic montages from collages on satellite images of deforested areas of the Amazon rainforest. In Natureza morta 1, he outlined the silhouette of an Indigenous leader in a ceremonial dance pode. The title refers to the Dutch painting genre of the seventeenth century, which stood out for the virtuous representation of lush and plentiful tables (nature) ready to receive its guests, but whose perishable aspect of the food and other objects arranged in it also symbolized the finitude of life (death) and the futility of these human pleasures. faced with the shaman’s ghost-silhouette in the shape of a denunciation against deforestation and enslavement of the native peoples and the exploitation of natural resources– body and territory– as the two primary targets of colonialism.

— Unknown Authorship

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