MAHKU paints chants (called huni meka in the Huni kuin language), translates them, puts them in the meaning , as Ibã Huni Kuin says. These chants are paths and assist in conducting the ritual with ayahuasca. They place the participants in rituals with nixi pae (ayahuasca) in relation to not directly visible beings. MAHKU, therefore, paints a relationship technology. The paintings, in turn, operate as paths through the non-indigenous world. Several things and people pass through this two-way bridge. Sometimes alliances are created. It is the case that gives rise to this project.

Bruno's precision, combined with a multiplicity of references, creates a kind of painted collage. Real and unreal animals, archetypes and myths, plants and stones, sunsets and eclipses, iconic figures and surreal landscapes. "Everything is dangerous, everything is divine, wonderful". The overlapping layers of paints and the gesture marks, however, show that it is human work. Bruno's real is made up of colors and images that, taken together, go beyond physical limits and become metaphysics: an individual metaphysics. Is that even possible?

Now, the paths of Bruno Novelli and MAHKU converge again. Not in the Amazon Forest anymore, but in São Paulo. Presented by Carmo Johnson Projects, Bruno Novelli and the collective MAHKU show new works for the SP- Arte Viewing Room and, simultaneously, in the face-to-face exhibition, curated by Daniel Dinato, Everything is dangerous. “Everything is divine, wonderful”, to be hosted at the brutalist house designed by Joaquim Guedes in Pacaembu.