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Amazônia. Indigenous Creations and Futures
30/09/2025 - 18/01/2026
Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac
37, quai Branly
75007 Paris
www.quaibranly.fr/fr/expositions-evenements/au-musee/expositions/
Far from the cliché of the great virgin forest inhabited by peoples frozen in time, this exhibition, between contemporary art and historical collections, highlights the Amazon from the indigenous point of view, a vibrant world anchored in the present, where a multitude of entities, human and non-human, coexist.
Often reduced to its biodiversity alone, the Amazon nevertheless has an abundant cultural richness. The exhibition Amazônia sheds new light on the so-called "ethnographic" collections of European museums and questions our Western view of the Amerindian visual arts.
By putting the museum's collections in dialogue with contemporary works by Indigenous artists, the exhibition invites us to rethink the boundaries between traditional and contemporary art, as defined by Western art history. The "artefacts" can be considered as works of art in their own right, while the intangible heritage and ephemeral arts — dances, oral arts, body paintings, knowledge — bear witness to the richness and vitality of Amazonian cultures.
Through the voices and creations of indigenous peoples, the exhibition reveals a plural and contemporary Amazon, where ancestral traditions and modernity intersect and enrich each other.
30/09/2025 - 18/01/2026
Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac
37, quai Branly
75007 Paris
www.quaibranly.fr/fr/expositions-evenements/au-musee/expositions/
Far from the cliché of the great virgin forest inhabited by peoples frozen in time, this exhibition, between contemporary art and historical collections, highlights the Amazon from the indigenous point of view, a vibrant world anchored in the present, where a multitude of entities, human and non-human, coexist.
Often reduced to its biodiversity alone, the Amazon nevertheless has an abundant cultural richness. The exhibition Amazônia sheds new light on the so-called "ethnographic" collections of European museums and questions our Western view of the Amerindian visual arts.
By putting the museum's collections in dialogue with contemporary works by Indigenous artists, the exhibition invites us to rethink the boundaries between traditional and contemporary art, as defined by Western art history. The "artefacts" can be considered as works of art in their own right, while the intangible heritage and ephemeral arts — dances, oral arts, body paintings, knowledge — bear witness to the richness and vitality of Amazonian cultures.
Through the voices and creations of indigenous peoples, the exhibition reveals a plural and contemporary Amazon, where ancestral traditions and modernity intersect and enrich each other.