Xingu
"Yes, I do believe in God: Naijib, he's my grandfather." Nadia
Abstracts
"The flight of Indians inland, their massacre, and the reluctance of Jesuits to hire them on plantations, led the Portuguese to import African 'labor' from the 16th century onwards. The first Quilombo communities, clusters of 'brown slaves', emerged at the start of the 17th century. The Quilombos, chased to the extremities of Minas Gerais and Goiás, were nicknamed the 'Kalungas', derived from a pejorative African term that became a synonym of 'negro' in Portuguese.
The Indians who preceded them on these remote areas initially showed wariness towards them. Little by little, the pacifist attitude of the Black people, and evidence of their sharing a common enemy, became a source of complicity and spawned mixed-race descendants. In this way, the Kalungas created a self-sufficient society with no notion of individual land ownership and with a model based on ecological balance."
Extract from Zoé Zoé, Femmes du mondes, 2007, Éditions Gallimard
Works
![BRASIL 3154](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvre_nadia_artiste.jpg?itok=pi8iPFbk)
Xingu, Brazil
Silver print turned sepia
36 x 23 cm
![BRASIL 3134](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvre_nadia_artiste2.jpg?itok=nHleOosr)
Xingu, Brazil
Gouache on paper
65 x 42 cm
![BRASIL 3136](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvre_nadia_artiste3.jpg?itok=l-mYyTXy)
Xingu, Brazil
Gouache on paper
42 x 66 cm
![BRASIL 3138](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvre_nadia_artiste4.jpg?itok=HpCz3eEp)
Xingu, Brazil
Gouache on paper
66 x 42 cm
![BRASIL 3148](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvre_nadia_artiste5.jpg?itok=3pAmE3Z_)
Xingu, Brazil
Gouache enhanced silver print
30 x 24 cm
![BRASIL 3150](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvre_nadia_artiste6.jpg?itok=t5HwT1AC)
Xingu, Brazil
Gouache enhanced silver print
30 x 24 cm
![BRASIL 3132](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvre_nadia_natural.jpg?itok=0WaGvDKE)
Xingu, Brazil
Silver print turned sepia
62 x 90 cm
![BRASIL 3152](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvre_nadia_natural2.jpg?itok=1sKLYjDR)
Xingu, Brazil
Gouache enhanced silver print
30 x 24 cm
![BRASIL 3146](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvre_nadia_natural3.jpg?itok=IsbnWTHt)
Xingu, Brazil
Gouache enhanced silver print
20 x 30 cm
![BRASIL 3144](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvre_nadia_natural4.jpg?itok=XkDm8mm-)
Xingu, Brazil
Gouache enhanced silver print
55.5 x 70 cm
![BRASIL 3142](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvre_kamajuras_0.jpg?itok=wNtk8wUs)
Xingu, Brazil
Gouache enhanced contact sheet
30 x 24 cm
![BRASIL 3158](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvre_village_des_kamajuras.jpg?itok=90M8nG2-)
Xingu, Brazil
Gouache enhanced silver print
57 x 85 cm
![BRASIL 3156](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvre_kalapalos.jpg?itok=a-Vzziak)
Xingu, Brazil
Gouache enhanced silver print
24 x 30 cm
Maps
![BRASIL 1963](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/cartes/tit_2017_carte_bresil_xingu.jpg?itok=Sw3LXhkE)
Gouache on paper
80 x 120 cm
![BRASIL 1964](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/cartes/tit_2017_carte_bresil_xingu_2.jpg?itok=LmBFCl69)
Pencil on paper
46 x 37 cm
Making-of
Images by Eduardo Aguier