* Since colonial times, the name Baniwa has been used to refer to all peoples who speak Arawakan languages who live along the Içana River and its affluents. It should be emphasized, however, that the name is not a self-designation. It is a generic name used by these Indians to represent themselves in multiethnic contexts or to the non-indigenous world. The term “Walimanai” (self-denomination) means "the other new generations who will be born" and is a collective self-designation used in contrast with the ancestors, “Waferinaipe”, the ancestors who created and prepared the world for the living, their descendants, the Walimanai of today. The Baniwa more frequently use as collective self-designations the names of their phratries such as Hohodene, Walipere-dakenai or Dzauinai.

kérapi dzamaapi peeri | 2022

studio practice

Drawing, digital photograph on paper, scale model, branch and stones

Variable dimensions

Taking the cosmology and artifacts of the Baniwa* peoples as a guideline, the Kérapi twin cups commonly used for meals constitute a double or extension of a ceramic object in an intriguing way that brings with it a symbolism of opposing forces of the same matter or dissolution of body /object. The ambiguous action provides narratives that cross the collective imagination and transport us to another time and space. Does it collide or expand?

kérapi dzamaapi peeri | 2022

video still | excerpt

HD | 16:9 | 10'42" | stereo | color

kérapi dzamaapi peeri | 2022

studio practice

Object | variable dimensions

kérapi dzamaapi peeri | 2022

video still | excerpt

HD | 16:9 | 10'42" | stereo | color