Exhibition 'Mejtere: stories retold'

On 28 February, we had the opportunity to participate in the opening of the exhibition 'Mejtere: stories retold' at the Paranaense Museum, composed of five interconnected nuclei: "All things are small", "Guardian spinners: carrying stories", "Weavings of the earth", "Heart in the village, feet in the world" and, finally, "Resistances: nothing for us without us".

Bringing the voice of different indigenous tribes of Brazil, "Mejtere", which means beautiful, charming and good in the Mebêngôkre-Kayapó language, reverberates the voices not only of the beauty of the artistic objects, but also of the ancestors who brought them to this moment. For them, Mejtere does not have a value of merely aesthetic connotation, but also moral and ethical, beauty being inseparable from being good.

With a multiplicity of techniques, they appropriated contemporary works and traditional objects to retell the indigenous history beyond the colonial vision. In fact, this exhibition transforms us and re-signifies our critical thinking as part of this diversity that makes up Brazilian culture, we were re-educated in our seeing, feeling and thinking. The artists take back their place of speech and break real paradigms. Paraphrasing the curator Camila dos Santos in her opening speech: "We are no longer objects of study, but participants in it, bringing our perspective and our look".

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