Daiara Tukano and the Indigenous Contemporary Arts

demarcation, representativeness and resilience

Abstract

This study’s objective is to investigate the work of Daiara Tukano (1982-), indigenous artist from the Tukano tribe (Amazonas), in its technical and semantic aspects, as well as the context of the Indigenous Contemporary Arts, creating a path between ancestral culture and contemporary expression. The bibliographical review and qualitative analysis were made choosing mainly indigenous speech and texts. Consequently, that brings to the center of the academic discussion the cultures, knowledges and art works of the indigenous arts, contributing to their democratization and deconstruction of bias and stereotypes. It was found that through her re-anthropophagic art, Tukano is contributing to the demarcation of spaces, to the emancipation of the indigenous speech and standpoint and to the construction of a new social imaginary of indigenous people.