INDIGENOUS ARTISTS AND THEIR READINGS OF MODERNISM IN BRAZIL

Abstract

The paper presents the main interpretations, re-readings, and criticisms produced by indigenous artists when invited by primary academic, cultural, and artistic circuits in Brazil to talk about the representations of indigenous people in the modernist movement, more specifically, to deal with the centenary of the week of art. modern in Brazil. In order to do so, we return to the criticisms made by these artists to the uses of anthro-pophagy, to the idea of modernism and avant-garde, to discuss how their arts, their practices, and experiments present other conceptual proposals – such as the idea of Reantropofagia, indi(o) people and Macunaimã – but to establish their authorial places, their presences, as urgent references to the institutions that invented the Indians and the projection of new social imaginaries to read the world.