Elobolo molo waïpɨnaï… (This Is Where I Loved Myself…) is a sound project inviting anyone who listens closely to follow the love stories of Indigenous people present in urban spaces. Notre mots-histoires is a moment devoted to readings of Brazilian Indigenous poems.
Installation. Yuwey Henri is talãmelonin (poet, author), onumingadoton (thinker), and owomatodon (activist) from the Kalin'a Tɨlewuyu nation (Indigenous people of “French Guiana”) and is Franco-Brazilian. She is president of Documents d'Artistes Caraibes et Amazonies (DDACA), which aims to promote and share contemporary art from these territories. Yuwey is committed to the fight for the Kalin'a future. She seeks to strengthen the preservation of the Indigenous cultures of her ancestral territory, which still endure the hardships of colonization. Through the thinking she develops and calls “Landguage Back,” she emancipates herself. Her works, which denounce historically epistemicidal state strategies, carry the hope of finding oneself again, of valuing oneself in one's entirety in order to fight against systemic erasure and forgetting. Elobolo molo waïpɨnaï… (This Is Where I Loved Myself…) is a sound project inviting anyone who listens closely to follow the love stories of Indigenous people present in urban spaces. To the rhythms of the sounds of the city, and of the humans and non-humans who inhabit it, the soundscapes shape the narratives to bring invisibilized voices to light. Trudruá Dorrico belongs to the Makuxi people. Holding a doctorate in literary theory from PUCRS, she is a writer, speaker, and researcher in Indigenous literature. She curated the exhibition “Nhande Marandu”: an Indigenous ethnomedia, at the Museum of Tomorrow (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2022-2023). In residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2023, she performed a poem at the opening of the exhibition “Rêver la Terre” at Espace Frans Krajcberg. In 2024, she is in residence at LABVERDE (Amazonas). In 2025, she is guest curator of the XV e Biennale internationale du livre du Ceará and the 1 er Festival de littérature autochtone of the Musée des cultures autochtones, Ayvu Nhevaitim (FLAN) – Rencontre des voix autochtones. Her book “Tempo de retomada” (autêntica, 2025) is the theme of Boi Caprichoso at the Festival de Parintins (Amazonas). Notre mots-histoires is a moment of readings of poems by her and by Brazilian Indigenous poets. "This evening, I am trying to search for the word-music, the word-story, the word-resistance, the word in its first form." With the support of: Ville de Paris; Fondation Yves Rocher; Service Civique; Monsieur et Madame Louis de Ségur de Charbonnières and ARTVERS. Curated by: Capucine Boutte, Association des amis de Frans Krajcberg.
Source: paris.fr — photo: Aycoobo Wilson Rodríguez