{"id":50363019,"date":"2023-02-09T19:29:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T19:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dialogochino.net\/?p=63019"},"modified":"2023-06-08T13:39:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T12:39:23","slug":"362958-struggle-brazilian-amazons-yanomami-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/justice\/362958-struggle-brazilian-amazons-yanomami-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Struggle of Brazilian Amazon\u2019s Yanomami brought to life through art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A thin layer of snow covers the skyscrapers of Hudson Yards, the newest neighbourhood in Manhattan\u2019s expanding business district. But inside The Shed is a burst of tropical colour, as Yanomami artists and activists with painted faces and Indigenous ornaments join photographer Claudia Andujar for the launch of its latest exhibition.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The iconic 16,000m<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> cultural centre is hosting \u201cThe Yanomami Struggle\u201d,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with drawings, paintings, and videos by artists of the ethnic group, together with photographs by Andujar.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Swiss photographer, whose family were victims of the Holocaust during the Second World War, has dedicated most of her life to protecting the Yanomami. The exhibition\u2019s collection of 200 photographs portrays a culture permeated by shamanism and an intrinsic relationship with the Amazon forest, as well as a long history of violence, but also resistance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I have worked with the Yanomami for 50 years and I will continue to defend the people and their lands, which are being invaded by miners,\u201d says Andujar, who lives in S\u00e3o Paulo. In fragile health, the 91-year-old only confirmed her presence a few days before the event. <\/span><div class='cdo-shortcode--image'><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_62976\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62976\" style=\"width: 1616px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-62976 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Claudia-Andujar-Yanonami-NY-Flavia-Milhorance-2023-15.jpg\" alt=\"Claudia Andujar at The Shed\" width=\"1616\" height=\"1080\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-62976\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Claudia Andujar at The Shed, in New York. The Swiss photographer has spent over 50 years trying to protect the Yanomami people in the Amazon (Image: Fl\u00e1via Milhorance)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/div> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The travelling show has been touring cities in Brazil and Europe since 2018. But it has gained unprecedented political weight as the Yanomami face an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/22\/lula-accuses-jair-bolsonaro-genocide-yanomami-indigenous-amazon\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">escalating humanitarian crisis,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with the invasion of illegal miners into their territory, bringing disease, malnutrition, and violence.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the youngest members of the delegation, it\u2019s their first time in the Northern Hemisphere winter. But not for shaman and Indigenous leader Davi Kopenawa, 66. In December 1992, he represented the peoples of the Amazon at an event at the UN headquarters in New York. That year, after more than a decade of activism, the Brazilian government finally recognised the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.socioambiental.org\/pt\/Povo:Yanomami\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yanomami Indigenous territory<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It covers 96,000 square kilometres, an area larger than Portugal, and is located in Northern Brazil, close to the border with Venezuela.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In previous years, Kopenawa had visited Europe and the United States as part of an intense international campaign for support to protect his people from a violent gold rush advancing on the region occupied for a millennium by the ancient Yanomami. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><div class='cdo-shortcode--image'><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_62982\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62982\" style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-62982 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Davi-Kopenawa_Image-Courtesy-of-the-Instituto-Socioambiental-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Davi Kopenawa\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1336\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-62982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Davi Kopenawa is a shaman and Indigenous leader advocating for the protection of the Yanomami people in Brazil and abroad (Image: Instituto Socioambiental)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/div> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe story is long, but it repeats itself like in a soap opera,\u201d Kopenawa tells <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Di\u00e1logo Chino<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>History of violence that repeats itself<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than 70% of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.socioambiental.org\/pt\/Povo:Yanomami\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">approximately 27,000<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Yanomami living <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oglobo.globo.com\/brasil\/noticia\/2023\/01\/terra-indigena-yanomami-sofre-com-segunda-investida-do-garimpo-ilegal.ghtml\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">today are under 30 years of age<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a reflection of the near-extermination suffered by this population in past decades.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first wave of deaths came from the incursions of religious missionaries, government agents and the military in the 1950s and 1960s. At that time, while still a child, Kopenawa lost his parents and other family members to measles epidemics carried by outsiders. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><div class='cdo-shortcode--image'><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_62985\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62985\" style=\"width: 1616px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-62985 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Indigenous-Claudia-Andujar-Yanonami-NY-Flavia-Milhorance-2023-13.jpg\" alt=\"photographs by Claudia Andujar\" width=\"1616\" height=\"1080\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-62985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the wall, photographs by Claudia Andujar taken during a vaccination campaign inside the Yanomami territory. The art exhibition shows the Yanonami people in their various facets: the lifestyle, religiosity and their struggles with non-Indigenous people invading their land (Image: Fl\u00e1via Milhorance)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/div> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the early 1970s, the military government began the construction of the Perimetral Norte highway in the southern part of Yanomami land. The work was abandoned years later, but it drew attention to the presence of gold and other valuable metals, driving mining into the heart of the dense tropical forest, until then almost untouched.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Kopenawa and anthropologist Bruce Albert tell how the miners began to infiltrate the region in small groups, first offering food and goods to the Indigenous people. Throughout the 1980s, however, their growing presence became hostile, and caused the pollution of rivers, the scarcity of game and the spread of new infectious diseases. At its peak, the industry comprised 40,000 individuals and 90 clandestine airstrips, which facilitated the miners\u2019 entry and departure on small planes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Indigenous inhabitants found themselves facing a dilemma which, according to the authors, lies at the heart of most conflicts: \u201cThe Yanomami became dependent on the economy gravitating around the mines at the very moment when the miners no longer found it necessary to buy peace with the Indians.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These tensions came to a head with the Haximu massacre in 1993, in which 16 Indigenous people, including children, and two miners were murdered. The massacre brought international attention and led to an unprecedented conviction for attempted genocide, although the accused were later released. The demarcation of the Yanomami territory helped cool the crisis, and operations by federal police and government agencies brought mining under control. But now the number of cowboy miners, or <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">garimpeiros<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has escalated \u2013 and Kopenawa is again trying to get the attention of the international community.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">&nbsp;<div class='cdo-shortcode--image'><\/span><\/p>\n<p><video controls=\"controls\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><source src=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230208_yanomami_exhibition_02.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<h6>A video installation at the show in New York combines photos of the Yanomami people from 1989 and 2018 by Claudia Andujar (Image: Fl\u00e1via Milhorance)<\/h6>\n<p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe hope to expel the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">garimpeiros<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from there again \u2013 this was a promise from the Lula government,\u201d Kopenawa says. \u201cJair Bolsonaro did not want to listen, did not want to take care of my people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As well as opening the exhibition, Kopenawa spoke at Princeton and Columbia universities and again at UN headquarters in February. He then <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Survival\/status\/1623011259988811776\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">toured<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Washington seeking support for the campaign against mining inside Indigenous territories.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Recent socio-environmental devastation<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The latest Yanomami crisis has been brewing since 2019, driven by the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/br.investing.com\/commodities\/gold\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rising price of gold<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> along with the permissive policies of Jair Bolsonaro\u2019s government. As a member of congress in the 1990s and 2000s, Bolsonaro tried <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/congressoemfoco.uol.com.br\/area\/pais\/bolsonaro-tentou-por-quatro-vezes-extinguir-a-reserva-yanomami\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">four times<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to suspend the protection of Yanomami land, without success. During his presidency, between 2019 and 2022, Bolsonaro dismantled environmental enforcement and Indigenous protection bodies, as well as pushing to relax laws against mining in protected areas. Although this new legislation has not yet been approved, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/pt-br\/mudanca-climatica-e-energia-pt-br\/57867-amazonia-eleicoes-presidenciais-motivaram-corrida-pela-destruicao-da-floresta\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">his rhetoric has encouraged<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the devastation of the Amazon by illegal activities. On <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aosfatos.org\/todas-as-declara%C3%A7%C3%B5es-de-bolsonaro\/?q=yanomami&amp;o=#i\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">several occasions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Bolsonaro suggested there was \u201ctoo much land for too little Yanomami\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deepening the crisis, there are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www1.folha.uol.com.br\/cotidiano\/2023\/01\/relatorio-aponta-militares-comprados-pelo-garimpo-na-ti-yanomami-no-inicio-da-gestao-bolsonaro.shtml\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">suspicions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that military personnel sent to the region were taking bribes to leak information about the few surveillance operations and allow gold and drugs to circulate freely. The mineral wealth of this border area has also attracted groups involved in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www1.folha.uol.com.br\/cotidiano\/2023\/01\/relatorio-aponta-militares-comprados-pelo-garimpo-na-ti-yanomami-no-inicio-da-gestao-bolsonaro.shtml\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">drug trafficking<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, such as the PCC, today <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poder360.com.br\/brasil\/brasil-tem-atuacao-de-53-faccoes-criminosas-diz-forum\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the largest criminal faction<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Brazil, causing an escalation of physical and sexual violence. <\/span><div class='cdo-shortcode--image'><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_62988\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62988\" style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-62988 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Ehuana_02_Flavia_Milhorance_DC.png\" alt=\"Ehuana Yaira\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1445\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-62988\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ehuana Yaira joined the tour in New York to show her artwork. The Yanomami artist portrays Indigenous women, many of them subject to violence at the hands of illegal miners (Drawing by Ehuana Yaira and image by Fl\u00e1via Milhorance)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/div> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is what 38-year-old Yanomami artist Ehuana Yaira shows in her drawings. She says she wants to denounce the suffering of children dying of hunger and malaria and of women sexually exploited by invaders. \u201cThe <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">garimpeiros<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are making us suffer from every corner of our land,\u201d says Yaira in New York.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The health of the people has also been abandoned. The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apublica.org\/2022\/09\/governo-bloqueia-r-250-milhoes-da-saude-indigena-nota-cita-tentativa-de-reversao\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">blocking of funds<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for Indigenous infrastructure and the difficult logistics in the remote territory, mostly without roads or communication, left health posts without basic supplies and staff. Medical professionals have left, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/piaui.folha.uol.com.br\/deixei-o-territorio-yanomami-por-medo-de-morrer\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fearing for their safety<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the increasingly hostile environment.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/may\/17\/yanomami-brazil-violence-land-grabs-hunger-disease\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">early 2021<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the situation was already drastic. Hunger and disease were already <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/may\/17\/yanomami-brazil-violence-land-grabs-hunger-disease\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">taking hold<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for similar reasons as in the 1980s. The most vulnerable, especially children, were dying from Covid-19. There was also a serious malaria epidemic, but a basic drug, chloroquine, was in short supply \u2013 partly because Bolsonaro was promoting its use to combat coronavirus, despite scientific evidence indicating its ineffectiveness. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><div class='cdo-shortcode--image'><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_62994\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62994\" style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-62994 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/garimpo-TI-Yanomami-Fernando-Frazao_Agencia-Brasil-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Aerial view of mining site inside the Yanomami territory\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-62994\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aerial view of mining site inside the Yanomami territory, near a river in the Surucucu region, in February. Illegal mining has escalated since Jair Bolsonaro took office in 2019 (Image: Fernando Fraz\u00e3o \/ Ag\u00eancia Brasil)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/div><\/p>\n<h2>A turning point?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bras\u00edlia remained blind to the crisis until the first month of the government of Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva. Shocking new images of fragile and malnourished children <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sumauma.com\/nao-estamos-conseguindo-contar-os-corpos\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">were released<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by the independent journalism website Suma\u00fama in January. Urged by the Minister for Indigenous Peoples, Sonia Guajajara, the president <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cultura.uol.com.br\/cenarium\/2023\/01\/20\/209577_lula-visita-boa-vista-neste-sabado-para-conhecer-as-estruturas-de-atendimento-a-saude-indigena-no-estado.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">landed at<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the epicentre of the crisis, in Boa Vista, a day later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">With the issue already gaining international prominence, a <a href=\"https:\/\/exame.com\/brasil\/governo-abre-hospital-de-campanha-em-area-yanomami-que-esta-a-merce-do-crime\/\">task force<\/a> has offered treatment to the most seriously ill patients and the air force have <a href=\"https:\/\/g1.globo.com\/jornal-nacional\/noticia\/2023\/02\/04\/garimpeiros-tentam-deixar-a-reserva-yanomami-em-roraima-apos-fab-controlar-espaco-aereo.ghtml\">seized control<\/a> of the air space over the territory, causing miners to flee by boat \u2013 although many are <a href=\"https:\/\/g1.globo.com\/fantastico\/noticia\/2023\/01\/30\/garimpeiros-nao-se-intimidam-com-a-presenca-da-forca-aerea-na-terra-yanomami.ghtml\">not intimidated<\/a> by the presence of the security forces.<div class='cdo-shortcode--image'><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_63000\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63000\" style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-63000 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/populacao-TI-Yanomami-Fernando-Frazao_Agencia-Brasil-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Yanomamis, mainly women with their children, await help from the health task force\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-63000\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yanomamis, mainly women with their children, await help from the health task force set up to address the humanitarian crisis in Boa Vista, near the Yanomami territory in February (Image: Fernando Fraz\u00e3o \/ Ag\u00eancia Brasil)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/div><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kopenawa says that the withdrawal of miners will not be a simple mission: \u201cOur land is rich, and where there is wealth, the invasions do not stop.\u201d The demarcation of Yanomami territory, he says, does not guarantee protection against the illegal advance of mining and other activities such as cattle ranching and soybean cultivation, which are expanding on a smaller scale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Companies have made more than 500 active mineral extraction requests to the National Mining Agency, covering over <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/infoamazonia.org\/2021\/06\/22\/mineracao-e-garimpo-disputam-area-maior-do-que-a-belgica-dentro-da-terra-indigena-yanomami\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">30% of the territory<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Although the areas are currently closed to exploitation, potential <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/pt-br\/industrias-extrativistas-pt-br\/51271-mineradoras-buscam-novas-areas-de-exploracao-em-territorios-indigenas\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">legal changes<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, such as the ones proposed by Bolsonaro,&nbsp; may eventually change this scenario. And though illegal activities have reduced since the 1990s, they have never stopped. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Art as activism<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere is a peak in this crisis, of course, but the biggest issue was its invisibility,\u201d says Herv\u00e9 Chand\u00e8s, artistic general director of the Fondation Cartier, one of the bodies behind the exhibition. <\/span><div class='cdo-shortcode--image'><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_63007\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63007\" style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-63007 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Yanonami-artistas-NY-Flavia_milhorance-2023-03-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Yanomami artists and allies in NY\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1443\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-63007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yanomami artists and allies came together for the launch of the exhibition in February in New York (Image: Fl\u00e1via Milhorance)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/div> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He has been following the Yanomami situation for over two decades, when he first met Andujar and Albert in an encounter that led to the Spirit of the Forest exhibition in Paris in 2003. For that exhibition, non-Indigenous artists, including Andujar, spent months in the territory working with the Yanomami on pieces that sought to express Indigenous lifestyles and spirituality.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over time, Chand\u00e8s says he has better understood his position as the project&#8217;s sponsor. The big difference with the new exhibition is that \u201cinstead of going to their territory, they come here, New York, to speak for themselves.\u201d For the first time, long-time activists for the Yanomami and the Amazon rainforest have met in the same space. &#8220;They are all together here, the stage is theirs,\u201d says Chand\u00e8s. \u201cThat is very symbolic.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><div class='cdo-shortcode--image'><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_62991\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62991\" style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-62991 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Joseca_02_Flavia_Milhorance_DC.png\" alt=\"Joseca Mokahesi\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1406\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-62991\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joseca Mokahesi portrays Yanomami shamanism and his people\u2019s struggle in his drawings (Photo by Fl\u00e1via Milhorance and drawing by Mokahesi)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/div> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among them is Joseca Mokahesi, one of the Indigenous artists who exhibited his illustrations in the 2003 show. Born in 1971, with no recorded date of birth, Mokahesi speaks the Yanomami language and requires translators to communicate. But his drawings have crossed borders and today serve as a key to the universe of his people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMy art is my fight. 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