MAHKU

2013, lives and works in Jordão, Brazil.

MAHKU paints chants. Translates and transforms the huni meka chants into images. These songs, in turn, are paths that place participants in ayahuasca rituals in relation to otherness. The MAHKU therefore paints a relationship of technology. Paintings that are bridges towards the non-indigenous world.

The paths of MAHKU have already taken them far. Currently, at the 60th Venice Biennale, Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere, MAHKU painted the story of Kapewë Pukeni (the myth of the bridge alligator) on the large mural created for the façade of the Central Pavilion, the main entrance located in the Giardini.

Currently, the works of the collective are part of the collection of the Museum of Art of São Paulo (MASP), Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo and Fondation Cartier, in Paris. Among the exhibitions in which they participated, stand out Histoires de Voir (Fondation Cartier) Mestizo Stories (Tomie Ohtake Institute), 35th Panorama of Brazilian Art: Brazil by Multiplication (MAM-SP), Avenida Paulista (MASP), Vaivém (Cultural Center Banco do Brasil), Vexoá: we know (Pinacoteca). Thus, through art, the members of the collective dialogue with non-indigenous people and strengthen their cultural and territorial autonomy.

In partnership with Carmo Johnson Projects, MAHKU presents paintings by Acelino Tuin, Cleiber Bane, Cleudo Sales, Pedro Maná, Ibã Sales, Edilene Yaka and Isadora Kerexu.