JUAKETE - Pintura Verdadeira Plana (True Flat Painting)

Kume Assurini

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Biography

A painter, weaver, ceramist, and mother of four children. She was born during a period of traumatic change for her people, the Awaete, during what amounts to an ethnocide against the Indigenous peoples of Brazil. Despite growing up in a traditional family, it was her mother-in-law that awakened in her the importance of strengthening and learning their ancestral culture, whose practices and knowledge must be passed from generation to generation. In this exhibition, the artist, in partnership with the cultural producer and designer Carla Romano, seeks to look beyond the reproduction on canvas of graphic patterns that were once corporal, deepening the theme "Body" to enter further into layers of interpretation, signs and meaning, to consider the past, present and future of the sacred geometry of connection with the spirits of the Awaete people. ...

Selected Artworks
JUAKETE - Pintura Verdadeira Plana (True Flat Painting)
Kume Assurini
JUAKETE - Pintura Verdadeira Plana (True Flat Painting), 2021
100 x 75cm
KUJEMAE ETE YGA - ALMA DO HOME DE VERDARE (SOUL OF THE REAL MAN)
Kume Assurini
KUJEMAE ETE YGA - ALMA DO HOME DE VERDARE (SOUL OF THE REAL MAN), 2021
100 x 85cm
TAYGAWAETE - CORPO DA ALMA DE VERDADE (BODY OF THE TRUE SOUL)
Kume Assurini
TAYGAWAETE - CORPO DA ALMA DE VERDADE (BODY OF THE TRUE SOUL), 2021
100 x 85cm
KUJY RARYWA ETE - JUAKETE I (SOUL OF THE REAL MAN)
Kume Assurini
KUJY RARYWA ETE - JUAKETE I (SOUL OF THE REAL MAN), 2021
100 x 85cm
MEIRYJYA - DENTE DE CUTIA (AGOUTI TOOTH)
Kume Assurini
MEIRYJYA - DENTE DE CUTIA (AGOUTI TOOTH), 2021
100 x 85cm
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