Guided Tour With the Curator and Yanomami Spokesperson Davi Kopenawa

Thyago Nogueira, curator of the exhibition Claudia Andujar – The Yanomami Struggle, and Yanomami spokesperson Davi Kopenawa will give visitors insights into the exhibition and their work during a guided tour and talk. Thyago Nogueira is the head of the Contemporary Photography Department at Instituto Moreira Salles in Brazil, where the exhibition was first shown. Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Indigenous Yanomami community, has been campaigning for their rights for decades. He has received several awards for his commitment. This event takes place in the framework of the exhibition Claudia Andujar – The Yanomami Struggle. For five decades, photographer Claudia Andujar (b. 1931) has dedicated her life and work to the Indigenous Yanomami communities in the Amazon region of Northern Brazil. In the late 1970s, when the community found itself subjected to severe external threats, the Swiss-born photographer, who is based in São Paulo, began fighting for the Yanomami’s rights. Today, Andujar’s activist efforts are as relevant as ever – as is illustrated by current events, such as the ongoing deforestation and environmental destruction caused by mining and ranching, human rights violations in the region or the spread of malaria and COVID-19.