O ULTIMO GUERREIRO DOS XETAS
QUEM SÃO OS XETAS
joselycarvalho | Criado em: 03/08/2009
When I was a child, I use to spend my vacations in Paraná. From that period, I remember the tall Araucária trees and the stories about the Xetá, an indigenous tribe that inhabited the Serra dos Dourados region, where my father had coffee plantations. They were identified and classified by the scientific community, at the end of 1950s, as a group still living with Stone Age habits. The invasion of their land happened as part of the expansion of coffee farms and government incentive to land development. Today, fifty years later, Xetá is an extinct tribe. I was told that, perhaps, one woman is still alive, living today in a mental hospital. The installation, through a video projection in a corner wall, brings the presence of this woman. The digital image suggests her psychic labyrinth while I enter into my computer looking for the layers of our solitude.
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