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SIAMO FORESTA
June 22 – October 29, 2023
Triennale Milano

Fernando Allen (Paraguay), Efacio Álvarez (Nivaklé, Paraguay),
Cleiber Bane (Huni Kuin, Brazil), Cai Guo-Qiang (China), Johanna
Calle (Colombia), Fredi Casco (Paraguay), Alex Cerveny (Brazil),
Jaider Esbell (Makuxi, Brazil), Floriberta Fermín (Nivaklé, Paraguay),
Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe (Yanomami, Venezuela), Aida Harika
(Yanomami, Brazil), Fabrice Hyber (France), Morzaniel Ɨramari
(Yanomami, Brazil), Angélica Klassen (Nivaklé, Paraguay), Esteban
Klassen (Nivaklé, Paraguay), Joseca Mokahesi (Yanomami, Brazil),
Bruno Novelli (Brazil), Virgil Ortiz (Pueblo Cochiti, New Mexico,
United States), Santídio Pereira (Brazil), Solange Pessoa (Brazil),
Brus Rubio Churay (Murui-Bora, Peru), André Taniki (Yanomami,
Brazil), Edmar Tokorino (Yanomami, Brazil), Adriana Varejão (Brazil),
Ehuana Yaira (Yanomami, Brazil), Roseane Yariana (Yanomami,
Brazil), #luizzerbini (Brazil)
Artistic direction: #brucealbert, anthropologist, Hervé
Chandès, Artistic Managing Director, Fondation Cartier pour
l’art contemporain.
Exhibition design: Luiz Zerbini
Triennale Milano and Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
present, from June 22 to October 29, 2023, the exhibition
Siamo Foresta, created under the artistic direction of anthropologist
Bruce Albert and Artistic Managing Director of the
Fondation Cartier Hervé Chandés, in a special exhibition design
conceived by Brazilian artist #luizzerbini.
Bringing together the works of 27 artists from different countries,
cultures and generations, mostly Latin Americans and belonging
to Indigenous communities, Siamo Foresta invites the
visitor to discover new contemporary artistic points of view.
Siamo Foresta is accompanied by a rich Public program curated
by Italian philosopher Emanuele Coccia, which underlines
the original and standing points of the exhibition. The first event
takes place on Thursday June 22 from 5 to 8 pm to celebrate
the opening of the exhibition and the wide variety of expressive
languages, inspirations and topics represented by the artists,
13 of which, along with the artistic directors, will gather around
Emanuele Coccia for an inspiring conversation, open to the public.
This program will continue in the fall.
This exhibition is the sixth project created as part of the eight-
year #partnership between #triennale Milano and Fondation
Cartier pour l’art contemporain, confirming the institutions’ commitment
to bringing their exhibition projects to multiple audien-
SIAMO FORESTA
June 22 – October 29, 2023
Triennale Milano
ces, encouraging to discover the visions of artists from the most
diverse geographical contexts.
Over 70% of the works on display come from the collection of the
Fondation Cartier and bear witness to the relationship that it has
established with artists from Indigenous communities of South
America. The encounter with Indigenous and non-Indigenous aesthetic
and metaphysical worlds has offered the opportunity to
give life to new artistic projects, exclusive works and unexpected
collaborations. Numerous new creations are also included in this
exhibition project, conceived ad hoc for Siamo Foresta.
Fondation Cartier works to foster encounters and exchanges
between artists, a principle standing at the origin of this exhibition,
resulting from conversations which have given rise to
unprecedented collaborations in particular the one between
Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe, Yanomami artist from Venezuela, and
French artist Fabrice Hyber; or between the artists Adriana
Varejão from Rio de Janeiro and Joseca Mokahesi, Yanomami
from Brazil; and the most recent collaboration between the
Yanomami artist Ehuana Yaira and New York based, Chinese artist
Cai Guo-Qiang.
Whether they are passionate observers of the plant and animal
diversity of the forest in which they live, or urban creators fascinated
by it, the artists in this exhibition dialogue with each other
on a common theme: the necessity to reimagine the role of
mankind within the universe of living beings.
“Siamo Foresta stages an unprecedented dialogue between
thinkers and defenders of the forest; between Indigenous artists
– from New Mexico to the Paraguayan Chaco going through
the Amazon (Brazil, Peru and Venezuela) – and non-Indigenous
artists (Brazil, China, Colombia and France) (...). Siamo Foresta
draws its founding inspiration from a common aesthetic and
political vision of the forest as an egalitarian multiverse of living
beings, human and non-human, and as such offers the vibrant
allegory of a possible world beyond our anthropocentrism. Since
its origins, the Western tradition has categorised the living according
to a scale of value on which the human stands at the
top. Through this supremacism, humanity has gradually cut itself
off from the living, paving the way for all the abuses which are
now culminating with the destruction of biodiversity and the contemporary
climate catastrophe. The philosophy of Indigenous
societies in the Americas, on the other hand, considers that humans
and non-humans (animals and plants) although different
in appearance, are profoundly united by the same sensitivity and intentionality. Therefore, human and non-human communities
constitute, for them, a complex multiverse of beings who coexist,
on an equal footing and at the cost of mutual compromise,
within the same vast and living entity, the “earth-forest-world”.
It is in the name of this concern for equality between the living
and the recognition of the porous nature of the borders which,
in appearance, distinguish them – against, therefore, the idea of
any human supremacism – that the artists presented here are
brought together.” (Bruce Albert, anthropologist and curator of
the exhibition).
To underline the emotional connections, the stylistic and conceptual
affinities between the selected works, the artists on
display are ideally connected one to the other through the exhibition
design conceived by #luizzerbini. In fact, the artist has
imagined a continuous set of scenographic elements that embraces
the entire exhibition journey and allows the forest, with its
elements and vital rhythm, to inhabit the halls of #triennale Milano.
On the one hand, the forest is no longer a space extraneous to
the city and culture, but the place where encounters are celebrated:
Siamo Foresta puts together artists who imagine unity
of the planet through the idea of the forest. On the other hand,
it is through art that different cultures can dialogue together and
transform each other: the exhibition recounts the influences that
the Indigenous cultures of the Amazon area and beyond have
exerted on non-Indigenous aesthetic cultures. The museum becomes
the place where the arts show the way to reimagine the
planet and its future in a different way.
The exhibition Siamo Foresta is accompanied by a dedicated
publication, containing the iconographic documentation of the
exhibition journey, and by a children’s guide that proposes dedicated
activities exploring the contents of the artworks, designed
specifically for the younger public together with a series
of workshops.
The story of Siamo Foresta continues online on the Fondation
Cartier Italia’s social channels as well as on #triennale Milano’s.


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