Opening: Friday September 15th 8pm
In Rendezvous with the Jungle, the two projects showcased share a common geographical location: the Brazilian Amazonia. Teresa Pereda's exhibition presents an account of her performance titled Rendezvous in Amazonia (2008), while Simone Moraes' project Auscultating the Jungle (2019), which involves capturing the sound of tree sap in collaboration with her daughter, Carolina Moraes, is also featured here. In the context of climate change and the devastation of forests, bringing the jungle to the forefront is not merely a reference to a specific geographical biome, but an endeavour to set in motion a conceptual machinery aimed at the proliferation of meanings, challenging and unsettling the spectator. Teresa Pereda's and Simone Moraes' works are structured as ecopoetic strategies aimed at fostering contact, friction, and intersections between individuals and their natural environment. These artifacts, rich in poeticism, simultaneously serve as permeable devices contributing to the ongoing debate on ecological crises, the rejection of mercantilist and extractivist ideologies, and the critique of necro-capitalism. Two additional events are presented as part of a parallel program: the first is a discussion featuring the invited artists and representatives of indigenous peoples, including Renata Peixe-Boi from the indigenous Amazonian Mura people and Oscar Farías from the Mapuche community of Junín; the second event involves a day of actions at the rural experimental art site La Luz Buena in the town of Junín.
