Installation (still untitled) – This installation will consist of a series of new small objects that are part of my ongoing project Treelines – here and there. This project started in 2017 with the creation of representational small crocheted trees that have been placed on land and photographed in locations that have experienced extractive logging…
Category: Broken Forests Brazil
Don Chretien confirms participation in Broken Forests Fireweed/Flora do Fogo
Following upon my residency experiences in Yeonmisan Mountain Nature Art Park, Gonju, South Korea and the Broken Forests Poland 2024 residency on the border with the Ukraine, I will be researching the local mythology and ancestral knowledge of wildlife residing in the Serrado forests of central Brazil. From Indigenous knowledge keepers there and from Brazilian…
Quan Steele confirms plans for Brazilian Broken Forests Fireweed exhibitions
The works shared here are the result of hands-on, site-based research developed through my previous projects, including Broken Forests Action/Clearcut Reanimated in a woodlot near Jordan River, BC. (2024) and Mountain Island Air residency at Wells, BC. ( 2025). At the heart of my work is collaboration and interaction. I am interested in working alongside…
lwrds duniam confirms participation in BF Fireweed Flora do Fogo
WATA (firewitch) Engaging with the forest as kin, collaborator, and witness to colonial trauma, WATA (firewitch) would consist of site-specific sculptural assemblages and stream-of-consciousness ritual performances of ‘embodied territorial ancestral healing’, mediated through Afro-Indigenous Cosmologies in the region of Cerrado of Pindorama (so-called Brazil). Khipucamayoc: weaver of arboreal entanglements (2025) site-specific ritual performance and sculptural…
Mathias Reis curator/artist for BF Fireweed/Flora do Fogo 2026
Mathias Reis is a visual artist and photographer. Over the past ten years, his poetic research has focused on creating works in which environment and landscape play a fundamental role in their conception, often assuming a central presence. His approach begins with the presentness of the body in direct sensory relation with other life forms…
Valéria Scornaienchi joins Broken Forests Fireweed Brazil
My practice investigates modes of coexistence in times marked by ecological and social crisis. I am interested in how encounters between human and more-than-human beings can generate sensitive and ethical shifts within contemporary landscapes of ruin. I approach living as a collective verb — to live with, to make with, to think with, to imagine…
Broken Forests Brazil – July 20 – August 10, 2023
Contingents of Broken Forests Artists from: Italy, Canada, Colombia and (of course) Brazil attending this AMAZING Eco-Cultural exchange event. We traveled from Campinas, São Paulo to Paranapiacaba in the Serro do Mar mountains to explore the indigenous rain forests there and to create site-specific installations and performances. The Group also visited the Jaguaraguava River area,…
