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About Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

I'm a French artist living near Paris. From 1968 to 1973 I studied at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island, then at the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, California, for my BFA. My work for many decades has been informed and inspired by time spent with indigenous communities. Various study trips devoted to the exploration of techniques and natural pigments took me originally to the Dogon of Mali, West Africa, and subsequently to Yanomami communities in Venezuela and Brazil. Over many years, during the winters, I studied the techniques of traditional Bogolan painting. Hand woven fabric is dyed with boiled bark from the Wolo tree or crushed leaves from other trees, then painted with mud from the Niger river which oxidizes in contact with the dye. Through the Dogon and the Yanomami, my interest in the multiplicity of techniques and supports for aesthetic expression influenced my artistic practice. The voyages to the Amazon Rainforest have informed several series of paintings created while living among the Yanomami. The support used is roughly woven canvas prepared with acrylic medium then textured with a mixture of sand from the river bank and lava. This supple canvas is then rolled and transported on expeditions into the forest. They are then painted using a mixture of acrylic colors and Achiote and Genipap, the vegetal pigments used by the Yanomami for their ritual body paintings and on practical and shamanic implements. My concern for the ongoing devastation of the Amazon Rainforest has inspired my films and installation projects. Since 2005, I've created a perfomance and film project - Fire Sculpture - to bring urgent attention to Rainforest issues. To protest against the continuing destruction, I've publicly set fire to my totemic sculptures. These burning sculptures symbolize the degradation of nature and the annihilation of indigenous cultures that depend on the forest for their survival.

Um símbolo ardente para a necropolítica de Bolsonaro! – O « marco temporal » – Genocídio para povos indígenas e ecocídio para a floresta amazônica?

Posted on September 3, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Bolsonaro insinua seu descumprimento da lei se o «marco temporal» – estratégia para fixar a data limite de 1988 para as reivindicações de terras indígenas – for rejeitado pelo Supremo Tribunal Federal! Um grupo de cerca de 150 indígenas carregou … Continue reading →

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Brazil Supreme Court weighs indigenous land case – Yahoo Singapore News —

Posted on September 3, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Brazil Supreme Court weighs indigenous land case – Yahoo Singapore News https://ift.tt/3t7fRA7 Brazil Supreme Court weighs indigenous land case  Yahoo Singapore News Superforest via “deforestation” – Google News https://ift.tt/2tI2HiE Brazil Supreme Court weighs indigenous land case – Yahoo Singapore News —

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SONIA GUAJAJARA-A WOMAN WARRIOR — THE PRODIGY OF IDEAS — Tiny Life

Posted on September 3, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Today, in Brazil, about two thousand activists live under the threat of ‘pistoleiros’. Among them, Sônia Bonê Guajajara, vice president of the Coordination of Indigenous Organizations for the Brazilian Amazon. The main organization fighting for the defense of the indigenous … Continue reading →

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Un symbole brûlant pour la nécropolitique de Bolsonaro ! – Le « cadre temporel » – Génocide pour les peuples autochtones et écocide pour la forêt amazonienne ?

Posted on September 2, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Bolsonaro insinue son non-respect de la loi si le « « cadre temporel » – une stratégie pour fixer une date butoir à 1988 pour les revendications territoriales des autochtones – est rejeté par la Cour suprême du Brésil ! Un groupe d’environ 150 … Continue reading →

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Lideranças indígenas debatem tese do marco temporal, que será julgada no STF — Ecoamazônia

Posted on September 2, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Aconteceu nesta segunda-feira (30) uma Live promovida e mediada pela deputada federal Joenia Wapichana (REDE-RR), coordenadora da Frente Parlamentar Mista em Defesa dos Direitos dos Povos Indígenas (FPMDDPI), com a participação de lideranças indígenas de Roraima, para um debate sobre … Continue reading →

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Editorial Estadão: O Supremo e as terras indígenas — Ecoamazônia

Posted on September 2, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

A solução para a questão das terras indígenas foi dada pela Assembleia Constituinte. Cabe ao Supremo Tribunal Federal aplicá-la Em tempos de debate acirrado sobre o papel e os limites do Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF), a Corte retoma nesta semana … Continue reading →

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A burning symbol for Bolsonaro’s necropolitics! – The «Time Frame » Trick – Genocide for indigenous peoples and Ecocide for the Amazon Rainforest?

Posted on September 1, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Bolsonaro insinuates his noncompliance with the law if the « time frame » – a strategy for setting a cut-off date of 1988 for indigenous land claims – is rejected by Brazil’s Supreme Court! A group of around 150 indigenous people carried … Continue reading →

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Land Grabbers: The Growing Assault on Brazil’s Indigenous Areas – Yale E360 — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

Posted on September 1, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Under President Jair Bolsonaro, illegal gold miners, loggers and ranchers are invading and occupying ever-larger amounts of Indigenous territory. Brazil’s original inhabitants are increasingly opposing these incursions, leading to conflicts and a surge in killings of local activists. Source: Land … Continue reading →

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Para MPF, Brasil não tem evoluído na proteção dos direitos dos povos indígenas — Ecoamazônia

Posted on September 1, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Avaliação do órgão foi em audiência na Câmara, onde se debateu o cumprimento de recomendações da ONU para a garantia de direitos aos povos originários “Os povos indígenas estão se sentindo agredidos por várias ações governamentais que não refletem aquilo … Continue reading →

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NO allo stratagemma del « Lasso di Tempo » – Un’aberrazione!

Posted on August 31, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« Il ‘lasso di tempo’ è un percorso del nemico della foresta contro la mia gente. Il ritardo per me significa rubare più terra degli Yanomami. Ruba altre nostre terre che sono già state delimitate, ratificate e registrate dal governo brasiliano. » … Continue reading →

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