Water connects
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| Admission: Free Admission |
| Which languages: English, German, Portuguese |
| Venue: Ground Floor, Hall 2 |
| Belongs to: Opening Mine. Yours. Ours!?, Agua. The Art and Cosmologies of Water, Nhé’ẽ – Circle Conversations |
Sandra Benites, Rodrigo Duarte, Natalia Pavía, and Andrea Scholz have worked closely with Guaraní, Palikur, and Kotiria communities whose origin stories begin in water, while Walmeri Ribeiro has long collaborated with traditional fishing communities in Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro. Their conversation explores forms of curating that follow the decisions, priorities, and ways of knowing of the communities themselves.
Nhé’ẽ are circular conversations where knowledge, experiences, and perspectives are shared. The term comes from the Guarani language and can mean the word, the voice, and language, but also the spirit.
Participants
Sandra Benites is an art curator and researcher, recognized for her work in promoting diversity and inclusion in the art world. She has a background and a PhD in Social Anthropology from the National Museum and has focused on exploring the intersections between contemporary art and socio-environmental and cultural issues, with an emphasis on indigenous voices. Currently, Sandra Benites is the Director of Visual Arts at the National Arts Foundation – FUNARTE.
Visual artist and curator from Amazonas investigates contemporary visual narratives at the intersection between art, memory and territory. Graduated in Cinema and Documentary from AIC, he is the founder of ODARA Audiovisual. His practice moves between photography, video, installation and documentary methods, addressing social, political and affective issues. He also works as a curator, educator and cultural mediator, developing projects that strengthen collective creation networks and expand access to art, with a focus on emerging artists and insurgent contexts.
Andrea Scholz is curator for transcultural collaboration in the Ethnologisches Museum and Museum für Asiatische Kunst in Berlin. She is a trained anthropologist with a focus on Amazonia and has been working in various collaborative projects with Indigenous communities and educational projects, mainly in Latin America.
Walmeri Ribeiro is an artist-researcher, curator, and Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies and Media and the Graduate Program in Contemporary Arts at the Federal Fluminense University (Niterói, Brazil) and a FAPERJ scientist fellow. Director of the Sensitive Territories platform, her research-creation focuses on the intersections between the arts and social-environmental issues, particularly climate change and colonial legacies. Investigating ethical-political and performativity approaches to artistic practice, she creates connections across cultural, ecological, and geopolitical dimensions with traditional communities: Indigenous, caiçara, and quilombola. Her artistic work spans performances, films, immersive and performative installations, and media art.