Amazon Ablaze: all is scorched

From time to time, nature, while confronted with such ignorance and devastation, gives rise to a wave of mass destruction... Nature shall perish into dying embers.

Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, an indigenous leader in Brazil

 

The Xapiri indigenous gods envisioned the environmental tragedy that seized Brazil in 2019, when humans destroyed a total of 9,762 km² of Amazon forest,

an area the size of Lebanon.

Victor Moriyama

 

Captions:

Room 4 – 1

 

Blue hell - 3.50 x 1.50 cm - Photo print on cotton paper

Scorched forest, Canutama, state of Rondônia, 2019.

 

Room 4 – 2

 

Yellow hell - 60x40 cm - Photo print on cotton paper

Scorched forest, Canutama, state of Rondônia, 2019.

 

 

Room 4 – 3

 

Aerial mining site - 1.10 x 75 cm - Photo print on cotton paper

Illegal gold mining site in Alta Floresta, state of Pará, 2019.

 

Scorched night - 3.50 x 1.50 cm - Photo print on cotton paper

Forest scorched in Cláudia, state of Mato Grosso, 2020.

 

Legendas completas em português

Sala 4 – 1

 

Inferno azul - 3.50 x 1.50 m - Impressão fotográfica sobre papel algodão

Floresta queimada, Canutama, Rondônia, 2019.

 

Sala 4 – 2

 

Inferno amarelo - 60 x 40 cm - Impressão fotográfica sobre papel algodão

Floresta queimada, Canutama, Rondônia, 2019.

 

 

Sala 4 – 3

 

Garimpo aéreo - 1.10 m x 75 cm - Impressão fotográfica sobre papel algodão

Garimpo de ouro ilegal em Alta Floresta, Pará, 2019.

 

Noite queimada - 3.50 x 1.50 m - Impressão fotográfica sobre papel algodão

Floresta queimada, Cláudia, Mato Grosso, 2020.