Denílson Baniwa - Yawara Akanga

A Gentil Carioca São Paulo opens a new solo exhibition by Denilson Baniwa, Yawara Akanga (dog’s head, free translation), on April 7, from 4pm.

The exhibition brings together 10 new works and continues the artist’s research into non-Indigenous presence in the Rio Negro region and across the Amazon territory. The critical text is written by Miguel A. López, Chief Curator of the Museo Universitario del Chopo.

This marks the artist’s second solo exhibition at A Gentil Carioca’s São Paulo space, following Moqueca de Maridos (2023).

In his practice, Baniwa revisits the past through the reinterpretation of images drawn from local traditions and representations, as well as from European and North American institutions — such as the Musée du Quai Branly, the Museu Nacional de Etnologia, the Princeton University Library, and the Getty Foundation — alongside photographic archives from Catholic boarding schools and Salesian missions in Amazonian villages.