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Liza Moura presents the Lost Cultural Identity photo series. This series is a document that shows in a sensitive way the cultural contrast that the Waura tribe, an indigenous community isolated in the heart of the Amazon, undergone in the years of contact with civilization.
“I expected to find a tribe that had little or no influence from our society, and I came across satellite dishes, children playing with plastic, aluminum, motorcycles, cell phones, clothes, all mixed in a homogeneous way with their culture. I met extremely nice people who made me discover several curiosities, like eating monkeys, some herbs used for medicinal purposes that shamans still keep, the culture of scratching the skin (scarification) to gain strength , mourning. All potentiated by the influence of "the white man" as they call us.
Unfortunately, it is no longer possible to return to them this rich culture lost by the indigenous peoples. I left Xingu, after 20 days spent with them, with a completely different vision from what I had imagined. Regarding the loss of identity, I think we only have the possibility of leaving them free to follow their own path, they are able to lead and negotiate their changes, to remake their stories and to leave us the memory of this. that they were. I understood that I can in no way judge this loss of cultural identity, seeing everything that is happening in the forest, the political stake that this implies and understanding the pressure of living in the forest which is so much today. desired by loggers, miners etc. ”
Information
Opening of the exhibition on Tuesday, November 30
Exhibition from November 30 to January 14
Spéos Gallery - 8 Rue Jules Vallès, 75011 Paris
Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
