Arte, Descolonização E Outros Mundos Possíveis

A Escuta Indígena Em Passarinhos – De Inhotim A Demini, De Adriana Varejão

Abstract

This article analyzes Adriana Varejão's work Passarinhos - de Inhotim a Demini (2008) from a decolonial perspective, engaging with the thoughts of activist Ailton Krenak and anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. Located on the terrace of the Adriana Varejão Gallery in Inhotim, the work recalls an experience the artist had with the Yanomami and reconfigures ways of representing, listening, and learning from others. It argues that the work operates as a gesture of listening and sensitive translation, shifting the hegemonic gaze on Indigenous peoples and proposing, with Krenak, a rapprochement with the Earth as a living entity and, with Viveiros, an opening to other possible ontologies. The work articulates art, Indigenous philosophy, and Amerindian anthropology as ways to imagine more just, plural futures rooted in the present.