Ling Institute

2023

We followed Maranhão visual artist Gê Viana over the course of a week, during the creative process of her intervention on one of the walls of the Ling Institute.

Along paths opened by a "machete cutout", Gê Viana re-proposes classic images of Brazilian iconography in an intense articulation of memory and ancestry, in the resumption of her identity as an indigenous Anapuru Muypurá. Through the connection with the territory and the activation of ancestral technologies such as the pipe, other perspectives of freedom, beauty, wealth and power emerge in the face of multiple temporalities of colonial devastation. The work is part of the project "Ling Apresenta", curated this year by Bitu Cassundé.