Gabriela Noujaim
Bio
Gabriela Noujaim was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1983. From the age of 12 years old she was already enrolled in The School of Visual Arts of Parque Lage.
Her artwork raises questions about the indigenous' socio-environmental ancestral heritage, the protection against assault on a woman's body, stretching constraints of socio-political structures in the Brazilian society. Graduated in Printmaking from the School of Fine Arts of UFRJ in 2007, the artist has been structuring her poetics from the interest in the technical image constructed from videos, photographs and, more initially, the engraving, and by the idea to fix an image in time.
Statement
The Maps of indigenous reserves alert us to the important role of forest preservation in Brazil. Where these reserves are located, we can see large green areas of forests not yet devastated by man.
In view of the ancestral role of indigenous nations in the formation of Brazil, I try to give a new meaning to the process they went through, with the aim of spreading their teachings about the multiethnicity of the people and their relationship with the environment. In 2017 and 2018, once a week, I was able to meet Guajajara women in an urban indigenous village called Aldeia Maracanã, next to the famous soccer stadium in Rio de Janeiro. My objective is to present, through screen printing techniques, some moments and knowledge acquired during these meetings with indigenous women."
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
