With one ear to the ground, I listen to the earth. What does she want to tell me? says the woman with the machete – she, the hunter, the grandmother, great-grandmother, great-great-grandmother, and mother who came before and will always remain. Brazilian artist Idylla Silmarovi watches attentively and follows in the footsteps of her indigenous ancestors. She creates a space in which memories, images, and spirits enter into dialogue with one another – beyond invented national borders and colonial violence. Here, the body becomes the scene of repressed, subversive knowledge. "Caçada!" is a manifestation and a monument: to life, to survival, to bodies, to their skin, to their pain – a summoning of spirits.
The breath sets the rhythm of the performance. To breathe together can also mean to attune, to conspire, to imagine, and to dream.
Emerging artist Idylla Silmarovi explores in her work the intersections between art and activism, especially with regard to suppressed and erased memories in Abya Yala (Brazil) and the persistence of colonial structure
