Marcados
Since 1973 and throughout the “Brazilian miracle” years, the Yanomami territory in the Brazilian Amazon forest had been invaded due to the development of a highway in the region. Official and clandestine mining brought many outsiders to the area. Their presence intensely interfered in those indigenous tribes’ lives.
In the early 80s, the Health Ministry hired a group of doctors and the photographer Claudia Andujar to count and vaccine the people in these tribes. During this time, Andujar registered with her camera the existence of tiny communities, and revealed their inhabitants’ health situation.
Since the Yanomanis do not name their people, the team came up with the solution of numbering each one of the inhabitants, what created a strange community of families marked with numbers that were totally strange to their culture. From these numbered images, identity records of each Yanomani person were created.
The series Marcados was put together, in 2006. Composed of 14 polypthics, the work was presented for the first time at the 27ª Bienal de São Paulo (2006), and since then it has participated in many solo and group shows in Brazil and abroad.
Marcados
Since 1973 and throughout the “Brazilian miracle” years, the Yanomami territory in the Brazilian Amazon forest had been invaded due to the development of a highway in the region. Official and clandestine mining brought many outsiders to the area. Their presence intensely interfered in those indigenous tribes’ lives.
In the early 80s, the Health Ministry hired a group of doctors and the photographer Claudia Andujar to count and vaccine the people in these tribes. During this time, Andujar registered with her camera the existence of tiny communities, and revealed their inhabitants’ health situation.
Since the Yanomanis do not name their people, the team came up with the solution of numbering each one of the inhabitants, what created a strange community of families marked with numbers that were totally strange to their culture. From these numbered images, identity records of each Yanomani person were created.
The series Marcados was put together, in 2006. Composed of 14 polypthics, the work was presented for the first time at the 27ª Bienal de São Paulo (2006), and since then it has participated in many solo and group shows in Brazil and abroad.