Feature - Issue #12
Uýra Sodoma is a manifestation of the biologist, ecologist, visual artist and art educator Emerson Pontes. Uýra tells stories to and for their community via the emotion of the imagination, made possible through art.
A Última Floresta - “A porra da árvore” (The Last Forest - “The Fucking Tree”), 2019. Performer: Uýra Sodoma. Photography and Editing: Matheus Belém. Conception: Emerson Munduruku and Matheus Belém.
Nothing alive resides isolated in this world - and this is independent of time and space. Even under the radical solitude inside a room, the wind blows and brings us memories. The organs of a cell are, for themselves, what the natural phenomena are of the planet: inseparable, codependent and
affect each other. I like to think of the phases of our human lives in this way, interconnected by the steps/times that build us; where every path, whether or not accidental, on the continuum between good and bad, influences what we do and the way we influence the world.
I have decided not to slice my life anymore: saying what year I became an artist, which year I become a biologist or an educator. If these titles happen, it is because they come from somewhere - and this ‘where’ is life. Academic knowledge is as valuable as traditional/experimental knowledge, but the former ignores the latter - even if it has its basis in it. They make a nice pair, but these times we are living in have put both of them to fight. With my art and trajectory, I insist they make peace.
Feature - Issue #15
New Ways of Being and Healing Outside
A conversation between Sonji Shah and Maymana Arefin with illustrations by Camila Fudissaku
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A Última Floresta - “A porra da árvore” (The Last Forest - “The Fucking Tree”), 2019. Performer: Uýra Sodoma. Photography and Editing: Matheus Belém. Conception: Emerson Munduruku and Matheus Belém.
A Última Floresta - “A porra da árvore” (The Last Forest - “The Fucking Tree”), 2019. Performer: Uýra Sodoma. Photography and Editing: Matheus Belém. Conception: Emerson Munduruku and Matheus Belém.
Série Elementar – Lama (Elementary Series – Mud), 2017. Performer: Uýra Sodoma; Photography and Editing: Keila Serruya and Sindri Mendes; Conception: Emerson Munduruku, Keila Serruya and Sindri Mendes.
Série Elementar – Lama (Elementary Series – Mud), 2017. Performer: Uýra Sodoma; Photography and Editing: Keila Serruya and Sindri Mendes; Conception: Emerson Munduruku, Keila Serruya and Sindri Mendes.
Série Elementar: A Mata se-te Come (Elementary Series: If the Jungle Almost Eats You), 2018. Performer: Uýra Sodoma. Photography and Editing: Lisa Hermes. Conception: Emerson Munduruku and Lisa Hermes.
Série Elementar: A Mata se-te Come (Elementary Series: If the Jungle Almost Eats You), 2018. Performer: Uýra Sodoma. Photography and Editing: Lisa Hermes. Conception: Emerson Munduruku and Lisa Hermes.
Retomada (Resumption), 2021. A series of 10 photographs commissioned for the 34th Bienal de São Paulo. Research, Artistic Direction and Production: Uýra Sodoma. Photography: Matheus Belém. / 1. Reencontrar (Re-encounter)
2. Germinar, rebrotar (To germinate, resprout)
3. Enraizar (To root)
4. Subir, escalar (To go up, to climb)
5. Agregar (To aggregate)
6. Romper, perfurar (To break through, pierce)
7. Espalhar, cobrir (To spread, to cover)
8. Florescer (To bloom)
9. Frutificar (To bear fruit)
10. Tudo de novo (All over again)
Série Mil [quase] Mortos: Boiúna (A Thousand [almost] Dead series: Boiúna), 2019. Performer: Uýra Sodoma. Photography and Editing: Matheus Belém. Conception: Emerson Munduruku and Matheus Belém.
Série Mil [quase] Mortos: Boiúna (A Thousand [almost] Dead series: Boiúna), 2019. Performer: Uýra Sodoma. Photography and Editing: Matheus Belém. Conception: Emerson Munduruku and Matheus Belém.
Série Mil [quase] Mortos: Boiúna (A Thousand [almost] Dead series: Boiúna), 2019. Performer: Uýra Sodoma. Photography and Editing: Matheus Belém. Conception: Emerson Munduruku and Matheus Belém.
