Bienal das Amazônias brings together works by 120 artists from the Pan-Amazon region

A meeting that brings together all the Amazons – transnational and Brazilian – in the form of art takes place for the first time in history, in Belém do Pará. The Bienal das Amazônias opens its doors to the public this Friday (4th), with works by 120 artists from the nine Brazilian Amazon states and the seven countries that make up the Pan-Amazon region, until November 5th.

The main point of exhibition of the works is a new cultural space in Belém, the deactivated building of a former department store, with four floors and 7,600 square meters, in the commercial center of the city. According to one of the curators of the meeting, Vânia Leal, they are expressions of all the effervescence and multiplicity of Amazonian cultures. “We are plural, there is no single way of making art, what exists are different individualities that produce art”. More details can be seen on the biennial's social media.

To translate this multiplicity of the forest, Vânia, who is an art historian, born in Macapá and based in Belém, worked, together with Keyna Eleison, an art history researcher, on the “sapukai” concept, in the process of choosing and curating artists and of the works that make up the Biennial. The term, which means scream, translates the multiple voices of everyone who participated in a research process in the Amazon territory, which lasted for two years.
From there, the curatorial work was able to bring together artists, cultural producers, culture agents and reveal a powerful cultural system that goes far beyond the forest landscapes and debates global themes such as economy, social relations and climate issues of global relevance. “Belém is stuck in the forest and that arrow points from the inside out, not only to the Amazon, but also to the world”, says Vânia.

The public will have access to this artistic universe, at 2 pm, on the same day that the city hosts the Amazon Dialogues event, which precedes the Amazon Summit, with the presence of heads of state to debate public policies for the region.

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