I found this map of South America in História dos Índios no Brasil, edited by Manuela Carneiro da Cunha. It serves to geographically locate the [Brazilian] indigenous ethnic groups discussed in the book’s various texts. I was immediately touched by the image of a continent that, devoid of the political boundaries we know today, is beautifully presented through the very design of its rivers.

• embroidery on antique cotton pillow case
• 60 x 60 x 20 cm
• EXHIBITIONS: 'Ao amor do público I – Doações na ArtRio (2012-2015) e Minc/Funarte’, Museu de Arte do Rio – MAR, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil / Galerie Caroline Vachet, Lyon, França / ‘Métissages’, Espace d’Art Actuel, Le Radar e Musée Baron Gérard, Bayeux, França; Musée de Bourgoin-Jallieu, França; Selasar Sunayo Art Space, Bandung; Museum Nasional, Jacarta, Indonésia; James H. W. Thompson Center for the Arts, Bangkok, Tailândia; Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux, França 
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Photo: Kristine Thiemann