Twelve Indigenous artists from the circumpolar regions of Canada, the US, Finland, Norway and from the Amazonian regions in Peru, Brazil and Venezuela exhibit their works at Power Plant
The Peruvian artists are participating in an exhibition entitled Arctic/Amazon, a group show of work by 12 Indigenous artists from the circumpolar regions of Canada, the United States, Finland and Norway and from the Amazonian regions in Peru, Brazil and Venezuela.
Indigenous Brazilian drag artist Uyra contributes a series of forest photographs in which he poses in arresting costumes.Yet if art has some power to sway that speeches do not it is with its emphatic physicality on the one hand and its subtle evocations on the other. One of the most pronounced artistic themes here is a play with scale, a making of little things big and big things little, which has obvious political implications as these artists assert the Indigenous presence.
When government agents in the 1960s encouraged the Inuit to make soap sculptures weighty enough to fill corporate lobbies or delightful enough to sit on coffee tables, the artists were working from a sculptural tradition dating back to ancient amulets that could be slipped into a parka pocket.
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