Gustavo Caboco

A Wapichana artist born in Curitiba, he grew up hearing his mother’s stories about their family and the ancestral landscape of the lavrado, the savanna of Roraima. In his work, he reflects on the displacement of Indigenous bodies, the stories of his people, and the (re)connection with original territories through art. Taking part in the Concertation’s debate, he said: “May Mother Earth be recognized and declared a subject of rights, because, for us, climate change is nothing more than the Earth’s cry for help.”



“I can be what you are without ceasing to be who I am,” a phrase coined in the early 1980s by an Indigenous student movement. The projections of the #Tuaartenarua Festival, in Belém, evoke the overlapping ways of life that can occur within the social groups of the Amazon.