From June 13 to August 10, the MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand presents the Video Room: Vídeo nas Aldeias. Part of the museum’s program dedicated to the theme Histories of Ecology, the exhibition portrays the diversity if indigenous peoples in their ways of seeing, inhabiting, and relating to the world and the environment. The exhibition brings together the films Amne Adji Papere Mba – Carta Kisêdjê para o RIO+20 (2012), by Kamikia Kisêdjê; Bicicletas de Nhanderú (2011), by Ariel Duarte Ortega Kuaray Poty and Patrícia Ferreira Pará Yxapy; and Yaõkwa – Imagem e Memória (2020), by Vincent and Rita Carelli.

The films were created through collective processes and workshops promoted by the Vídeo nas Aldeias project. This project was conceived in 1986 by the French-Brazilian anthropologist and documentary filmmaker Vincent Carelli, who was born in Paris, France in 1953. The project began as an initiative to record indigenous communities and share the footage with those who were filmed. Over time, the project has become a training program for indigenous filmmakers in Brazil, offering workshops, technical support, and audiovisual equipment donations.

Assistant curator Isabela Ferreira Loures of MASP curated the exhibition, which addresses the concept of ecology based on indigenous cosmologies. In this concept, the environment is not seen as a resource or landscape, but rather as a field of relationships encompassing spirituality and existence itself. “These films reveal a different way of relating to and existing in the world. They show an understanding of the environment as something expanded, which goes beyond the idea of preservation for preservation's sake. For these communities, the environment is their very means of life,” says the curator.

In the exhibition, the films are shown in sequence with continuous projections. Amne Adji Papere Mba – Carta Kisêdjê para o RIO+20 (2012), by Kamikia Kisêdjê, is a video manifesto by Kisêdjê women protesting deforestation and river pollution caused by the construction of the Belo Monte power plant in the Xingu River basin. Produced by the filmmaker and the Coletivo Kisêdjê de Cinema, the film conveys a message from the Kisêdjê people to RIO+20. The women took the lead in providing testimonies, forcefully expressing their concerns about the destruction of the Amazon and the future of their grandchildren.

Bicicletas de Nhanderú (2011) by Guarani Mbya filmmakers Ariel Duarte Ortega Kuaray Poty and Patrícia Ferreira Pará Yxapy offers an immersion into the spirituality present in the daily lives of the people of the Koenju village, highlighting their symbiotic relationship with the forest.

Yaõkwa – Imagem e Memória (2020) by Vincent and Rita Carelli follows the return of images filmed over fifteen years by Vídeo nas Aldeias to the Enawenê Nawê community in Mato Grosso. The recordings document Yaõkwa, the community’s longest ritual. During this ritual, ceremony masters sing various songs for seven months to maintain balance between the earthly and spiritual worlds. Fifteen years later, the Enawenê Nawê revere these images, rediscovering deceased relatives, forgotten customs, and precious ritual songs.

Video Room: Vídeo nas Aldeias is part of MASP’s annual program dedicated to the Histories of Ecology. This year’s program also includes audiovisual exhibitions by Emilija Škarnulytè, Inuk Silis Høegh, Janaina Wagner, Maya Watanabe, and Tania Ximena.

ABOUT VÍDEO NAS ALDEIAS

Vídeo nas Aldeias is an audiovisual project founded in 1986 to strengthen Brazilian indigenous cinema. Initially conceived by Vincent Carelli, the project focused on recording the cultures of different Brazilian indigenous peoples and showing the resulting films to the communities themselves. Starting in 1997, the project expanded its activities to include audiovisual workshops with these communities and began distributing film equipment to give participants autonomy in representing their culture. Since then, training indigenous filmmakers and providing technical support for film production have become pillars of the project's work.

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VIDEO ROOM: VÍDEO NAS ALDEIAS
Curated by Isabela Ferreira Loures, curatorial assistant, MASP

-2 floor, Lina Bo Bardi Building
Open to the public: June 13 to August 10, 2025

MASP — Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand
Avenida Paulista, 1578 – Bela Vista, São Paulo, SP 01310-200
Phone: +55 (11) 3149-5959
Hours: Tuesdays free, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. (admission until 9 p.m.); Wednesdays and
Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (admission until 5 p.m.); Fridays from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
(free admission from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.); Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. (admission until 9
p.m.); Sundays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (admission until 5 p.m.); closed on Mondays.
Online booking required at masp.org.br/ingressos
Tickets: R$ 75 (general admission); R$ 37 (students with ID)

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