When the Other is Us: from Claudia Andujar’s Photographs to David Kopenawa’s Words #1011828

This excerpt is part of the volume Visual Narratives, Aesthetics and Decoloniality: Imagery and the Construction of the ‘Other’. Vol. 1 – Decolonial Aesthetics, Ontologies and Epistemologies, edited by Tomás Cajueiro and Estevão Bosco, published by Ventura Edizioni.


1. Claudia Andujar and the dreamlike universe of the Yanomami
“The norami, the vital principle, is the mirror image. It is the shadow reflected in the water. It is a portrait that when you die must be burned”.
Departing from the intertwining of life and work, images and words, in Claudia Andujar and David Kopenawa, this essay seeks to challenge ours way of living and coexisting on this shared earth. First, it articulates an approach to another world in its unique worldview; then, it promotes a critical distancing from our own way of existence.