YUXIN MESHTIKA - Gathering of spirits
Critical text by Kássia Borges

We would like to invite the viewer to set foot into myriad territories, narratives, poetics and give way to an encounter, a gathering. An exhibition from the Carmo Johnson Projects gallery collection, involving four artists and myself, invites you to explore this territory through dreams. It's an invitation to a gathering of spirits, languages, cosmologies and artivisms.

Tamikuã Txihi integrates her ancestral gene with a contemporary outlook allowing for an exploration of the jaguar woman’s form and political resolve. Along the same path, Naine Terena interlaces her ancestry with the indigenous woman’s day to day, sometimes utilizing unusual materials, weaving threads and engendering networks of encounters. The MAHKU movement presents its visions in strong, luminous colors leading to one’s dreams and inviting passers-by to awake from their slumber to their ancestral habitat. Kaya Agari dreams her graphics, extending them to other planes and surfaces with lines and colors derived from natural pigments. I, Kássia Borges, a Ynã woman, born of Gaia’s ancestral clay, born of my paternal family, begin slithering across the ground and transforming into the great boa constrictor woman I have always been.

Contemporary indigenous art, or rather indigenous aesthetic movements, are blooming to a new moment in art history and unveiling a unique universe of aisthesis.

Come in and let your bodies de-anesthetize.