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Uýra Sodoma

The interest in the Amazon is not the damn trees

ALKANARA - Uýra Sodoma - ©Matheus Belém
@ Matheus Belém
  • 29.11 — 30.11 2024
  • Performances
  • Earthways
  • Casa da América Latina
  • 29 NOV 19H00 // 30 NOV 17H00
  • ages 16+
  • 30min

In their award-winning performance practice, the Indigenous Amazonian trans artist Uýra Sodoma uses their body as a medium for telling stories. In The interest in the Amazon is not the damn trees the artist holds a mirror up to the colonial denial of Amazonian realities and violations of the forestand its people, while also demonstrating the diversity and resilience of the beings that inhabit the rainforest.

Audiences invited to move around the space (some seating is available).


Double-bill with Fire Letters. Free but ticketed. Book by email to bilheteira@tndm.pt. More info at www.tdmii.pt

29 NOV — 19H00
30 NOV — 17H00

Credits

By Uýra Sodoma Sound João Pratas

Uýra Sodoma

Uýra Sodoma is a Biologist, Master of Ecology of the Amazon, Visual Artist and Art educator for traditional communities. Living in an industrial territory in the middle of the Forest, they transform themselves to become a Walking Tree, making use of organic materials only. They have taken part in over 50 collective exhibitions nationally and internationally and presented five individual shows, including their debut at the Museu de Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the Currier Museum of Art, USA. They have exhibited at the 34th São Paulo Art Biennale, the...

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