Azira'I, with Zahy Tentehar
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- 18:30 / Cancelled 18:30 / Sold out Friday, 18:30
- 18:30 / Cancelled 18:30 / Sold out Saturday, 18:30
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Studio Centro de Arte Moderna GulbenkianPricing
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Conceived from the memories of actress Zahy Tentehar, this autobiographic solo explores her experience with her mother, Azira’I Tentehar, the first female shaman of the Cana Brava indigenous reserve in Maranhão.
The relationship between mother and daughter takes place in a conflictual context, in an extremely patriarchal northeastern interior and in a culture divided between the preservation of its ancestral values and the absorption of the dynamics and strains of a globalised civilisation system.
Azira’I chooses Zahy as heir to the gifts of shamanism and communication with the Mairas, while at the same time taking out on her daughter the frustrations of living in a colonial and oppressive environment.
This event is part of the complementary programme for the exhibition complexo brasil, curated by José Miguel Wisnik, Guilherme Wisnik and Milena Britto.
In Portuguese and Ze’eng eté, with English subtitles.
Biographies
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Zahy Tentehar
Artivist, indigenous member of the Tentehara Guajajara people, born in Aldeia Colónia, located in the Cana Brava indigenous reserve in Maranhão. She has worked as an actress, photographer, singer and performer. She wrote the script and performed in the video performance Aiku’è (R-existo), in partnership with Mariana Villas-Boas, selected for the Kannibal Fest in Berlin and the Rio Short Film Festival. She held the photographic exhibition Olhar Meu at Parque Lage, in honour of International Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
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© Leo Aversa
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