Ibatsai Judite Carlos Da Silva Freitas Collectif Apaminktaj

Judite Carlos da Silva Freitas and Apaminktaj Collective worked collaboratively to create the installation Tecida Mestra Professeur in 2020. The Ibatsai fabric was crafted by Judite Carlos da Silva Freitas and the bead snakes were made by Rosangela and Angela, who are members of the Association of Farmers and Handicraft Producers of the Kaxinawá Women of Taruaca and Jordão. “We gave the name Teacher Fabric because for us the meaning of this work is that the fabric will be stretched, and people will learn from that knowledge. They will learn to read with the teacher that is the fabric and with the knowledge of the masters, the stories of my people.The various Kenes (patterns), which are like a form of writing our ancestral stories, are represented on this cloth. Judite Carlos da Silva Freitas, took more than a year to make this fabric. She travelled the rivers where the Huni Kuin villages are located, searching for the ancient designs in the wisdom of the elderly women and when she found a teacher, she asked her to teach her the designs that she knew. So we are very grateful for the knowledge that she left to us, her memory, her name is Ibatsai which is my same name, she left this heritage to me”.