Gustavo Caboco's Sols 3347-3348: Bem
Vindo a Roraima!
Exhibition Design and Scenography in collaboration with Stav Dror.
Installation and art by Gustavo Caboco.
Commissioned for Art Basel Miami.
Text by Gustavo Caboco:
"IIn January 2022, NASA’s Curiosity rover took pictures of an area called Roraima because the soil looked like that of Mount Roraima in northern Brazil. It turns out that this region is cosmological evidence of the indigenous people that inhabit this area, such as the Wapichana, Makuxi, Patamona, and Ingarikó people. For us, recognizing Mount Roraima on Mars suggests that our grandfather Makunaima and his brothers Anikê and Insikiran would have visited this territory in another time and, who knows, transplanted a seedling from the Great Tree there to leave us traces of our history. Our Wapichana roots are in the Tamoromu tree, which is and was similar to a banana tree. A tree in which all life is vibrant and exists. Banana trees grow in families: granddaughters, daughters, grandmothers; sometimes, these granddaughters are transplanted. That means that they are cut and removed from their grandmothers to inhabit other lands. Tamoromu is the tree in which all life—all fruits, vegetables, animals, and people—live. Makunaima, our grandpa, cut this tree. This gesture that felled the tree generated a pororoca, a big wave, that created the world, the worlds and underworlds that we inhabit. Mount Roraima is the stump of this great tree."
Fall 2023.
