Gustavo Caboco Wapichana works between Paraná and Roraima states. This travelling involves the visual artist, his family and relations with the Canauanim Indigenous territory, in a movement of going back to the land. Roseane Cadete Wapichana is an educator, researcher and historian whose work is based on the lavrado savannah, an ecosystem specific to Roraima.
We are Living Borders, 2022, is an installation composed of a video, drawings and paintings. The work is the result of research conducted by Gustavo and Roseane on the history of the Wapishana people along with students of the Tuxaua Luiz Cadete Indigenous School in the Canauanim Indigenous Land (Roraima state). Together, they dedicated themselves to an immersive study on the Bloody Beach Revolt (1790), an indigenous uprising that took place in the territory of the current state of Roraima. Upon reflecting on the erasure of the memories of ancestral resistance through a process of collective creation, the work turns to the present, in the “time of the grandchildren”, in the words of the artists. Thus, it highlights the coloniality updates that are underway and places originary peoples as strategists of life and time.
