ENVISIONING MORE-THAN-HUMAN PLACE-BASED RECIPROCITIES THROUGH THE ART OF DENILSON BANIWA

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https://doi.org/10.4215/rm2025.e24010

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perspectivism, more-than-human worlds, contemporary indigenous art

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The essay aims to problematize how the reciprocity between art and life in the artwork of Denilson Baniwa enables the envisioning of more-than-human place-based connections. It draws on creative geographies and a phenomenological approach to interpret his artworks as expressions of Amerindian placeness. The provocations embedded in these art works incite horizons of meaning that fracture anthropocentrism through the geographic experience of perspectivism. They articulate a sense of placeness woven through transformative topologies of becoming-together with diverse modes of being-in-and-of-the Earth, whether human or otherwise. In this light, Baniwa’s artworks may be understood as a contribution to the envisioning of polyphonic reciprocities of co-dwelling among more-than-human kin/entities, interwoven within the care-driven fabric of places.

Keywords: Perspectivism; More-than-human Worlds; Contemporary Indigenous Art.

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  • Carlos Roberto Bernardes de Souza Júnior, Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia (GO), Brazil

    PhD student in Geography at the Institute of Socio-Environmental Studies (IESA) of the Federal University of Goiás (UFG), with a sandwich internship at the Université de Paris (U-PARIS). Member of the Laboratory of Studies and Research of Territorial Dynamics (LABOTER) - UFG and of the Laboratoire Dynamiques sociales et recomposition des espaces (LADYSS) - U-PARIS.

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2025-06-06

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