Karai Djekupe (Guarani leader, São Paulo)
Morgan Labar (art historian, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France)
Camille Benecchi (conservator-restorer, École Supérieure d’Art d’Avignon, Avignon, France)
Léa Le Bricomte (artist, École Supérieure d’Art d’Avignon, Avignon, France)
The roundtable proposes to present the project carried out at ESAA (École Supérieure d’Art d’Avignon) by an artist, a conservator-restorer, and an art historian. The method consists of inviting to Avignon representatives of Indigenous communities from the Brazilian Amazon — in particular members of the Suruí, Guarani and Ashaninka peoples — with whom partnerships have been established. The encounter with actors engaged in Indigenous struggles (the chief Almir Narayamoga Suruí, the activist Ivanaeide Bandeira and the jurist-activist Txai Suruí) demonstrates that there exist worldviews and domains of knowledge, feeling and thought which, although marked by colonial oppression, are not reducible to the modern experience of the world, nor are they therefore mere remnants of a bygone world or closed unto themselves. Through these pedagogical experiences, the project defends the necessity of a conservation-restoration approach that is in connection with, or even in close collaboration with, representatives of the communities from which the objects originate. Arguing that the decentering produced by these encounters regarding habits of feeling and thinking enriches and influences the pedagogical programme, the roundtable will share aspects of these three years of experimentation.
Panel in Portuguese and French with consecutive interpretation.
DATE: 28 August 2025, 6:00 PM
Venue: CEstA Headquarters — Rua do Anfiteatro, Colmeia, favo 8, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.