Afropindorâmicas - 2
Afropindoramic Cosmologies and Cosmopolitics. Illustrations for exhibition at Rio de Janeiro's Planetarium, about cosmologies and knowledges of indigenous, africans and afro brazilian peoples, who live integrated with Earth and Cosmos. Afro (Africa) + Pindorama (indigenous Brazil). Cosmovisions and cultures as important as the hegemonic eurocentric culture, but always diminished or banned from history, art and philosophy lessons in schools and museums in Brazil, due to structural racism.
Dogon wooden bench, late 19th - early 20th century. Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art. 2 discs (Earth and Sky) connected by a tree, surrounded by praying people.
Joenia Wapichana. Joenia was the first indigenous lawyer to stand by the indigenous cause in the Brazilian Supreme Court.
The Tabwa Basket and the Milky Way. A cosmological model of the Bantu-Tabwa peoples. The handle is the Milky Way; the cover is the surface of the Earth; the legs are the cardinal points. The symbols represent the Lunar phases.
Omama's Grief. Black, quilombola and indigenous communities have their cosmologies (ways of being and living) threatened every day.
Amanirenas. A little-known example of resistance: Amanirenas, the kandake (queen) of Kush (present-day Sudan), who expelled the Roman Empire from her lands in 24 BCE, fighting alongside her army and her son against Caesar Augustus army.