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Kaupüna Swing: handcrafted in the Xingu Indigenous Territory, Brazil
About the Item
Completely executed in the Kaupüna Village, located in the Xingu Indigenous Reserve, Kaupüna Swing unites the design of Maria Fernanda Paes de Barros and the indigenous handicraft tradition of the Mehinako people.
Its design rises from the desire to highlight the buriti yarn, made by women, placing it in balance with the painted solid wood traditionally made by men and already with recognized value.
It brings together the artisanal work of Mehinaku women who harvest, clean, and prepare the buriti straw to make the thread with which they weave their traditional nets, and of Mehinaku men who enter the forest to find trees from which to take the wood to create zoomorphic benches adorned with charcoal and annatto-based graphics.
The Kaupüna Swing marks the first time in Kaupüna village that men and women worked together to create a single piece, what gives it an immeasurable value and meaning.
Developed in partnership with Kulikyrda Mehinaku and Kuyawalu Aweti, it was considered by them a "new indigenous product".
It is part of Yankatu's Xingu collection. To create it Maria Fernanda Paes de Barros researched the Mehinaku traditions, visited Kaupüna village for a short period of time before the pandemic and went through numerous immersions with the local artisans online.
As all the pieces produced by Yankatu, it is accompanied by its soul, a certificate of authenticity in the form of a small book that tells about the inspiration that gave birth to it and leaves blank pages so that its story can continue to be told by those who acquire it, turning it into something more, which does not change with fashion, which does not go by with time. To the contrary, it will move on from a generation to another, from hand to hand, each time with more stories to tell, each time incorporating the lives shared by it.
It is amazing how vision, after immersive experiences in ancestral cultures, begins to have a greater sensitivity to see new ways of bringing our origin to the contemporary world. It is along this path that Maria Fernanda Paes de Barros, artist, researcher and founder of Yankatu, travels. With her soul absorbed by the profound experiences of the places she goes through, Maria Fernanda, in her own way, captures a dose of each learning experience, bringing to surface revelations in form of pieces filled with value, as a manifest for the benefit of Brazilian identity. “Each trip I make, I become humbler, I perceive differences from new angles, relearning to see and understand meanings through the other's place”, explains the artist.
For the new Xingu Collection, process could not be different; however, it had unusual circumstances in its development. The collection arose from the encounter between Maria Fernanda and the Mehinako ethnicity, located in the Kaupüna village, in Upper Xingu, south of Amazon Forest, at the end of last year. “Xingu is born from an encounter between past and future, but is established in the present, proposing new ways of looking at tradition, with the respect and admiration that it deserves, while using technology to maintain communication in times of isolation ”, says Maria Fernanda, who, due to new practices since the beginning of pandemic in the world, was unable to return to Kaupüna village to continue the studies and production process.
This unprecedented protocol in the dynamics made Maria Fernanda find new ways of interacting with the village artisans. The weaving techniques classes that she would have in loco were transformed into recorded videos and sent over the internet; with the help of Kulikyrda Mehinako, an artist and one of the community representatives, Maria Fernanda developed a new color chart, extracted from leaves and barks of native trees found in the reserve, with the aim of rescuing the full potential of Xingu, counting on Maibe Maroccolo, in Brasília, to extract these shades and make dye pigments to color the cotton threads used on the mats produced by the Kaupüna village’s women.
The wood comes from nature, each one is unique, with its veins, knots and tones. Because it is a natural material it suffers with the climate change, so cracks and shifts in color may emerge over time. The wood can also warp sometimes due to a large variation in relative humidity of the air. This aren’t defects on the contrary, all of this is considered normal.
The woven designs and painting are creations of the Mehinaku people based on their traditional graphics. Measurements may vary slightly depending on the wood found in the forest.
The images in the photos are illustrative, as the creation in the village is free and the designs and color combinations can vary, which makes each swing always unique. If you want a particular color send us a message and we will be happy to check the possibility.
The work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Brazilian Contemporary and Collectible Design by Yankatu, design + art with Brazilian soul.
Exhibitions:
2022 – Amazonie Immersive – Talk Gallery – Brussels, Belgium
2022 – Passagens – Nós Gallery – São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2021 – Orgânico – Adolpho Bloch Square – São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Auctions:
2020 - Leilão Oficial Artesol - São Paulo, SP, Brasil
- Creator:Maria Fernanda Paes de Barros (Designer)
- Dimensions:Height: 78.75 in (200 cm)Width: 23.63 in (60 cm)Depth: 11.82 in (30 cm)
- Style:Other (In the Style Of)
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- Date of Manufacture:2020
- Production Type:New & Custom(Current Production)
- Estimated Production Time:16-17 weeks
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- Seller Location:Jundiaí, BR
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU3188121719492
Yankatu - design with soul
My motivation comes from my soul and flows openly, on my life and in my work. I love what I do and I do it with intensity, I live every moment and I transmit all this emotion. In each project I immerse myself deeply in the region, in their craft and in the lives of the people who make them, it is a dive governed by research and by my soul, guided by the heart, done with respect and with the rhythm dictated by time. I get transformed and provoke transformations, and these atitudes reflect in the surroundings and beyond. I believe that design and art are one of the ways to value and eternalize the ancestral knowledge of Brazilian traditional crafts and the importance of nature around us, and so I use all tools that I have to create a quilt of infinite possibilities, full of feelings. Through Yankatu I expose not only my work, I bring with me the dreams and works of the artisans and instigate new dreams too. The tangible part of this work are the pieces that intertwine my touch with the lives that share their moments with me. The other part, immeasurable, is in continuous development, in a mixture of art and freedom, with no date to finish. It is a continuous development, in a relationship created around respect and trust. My desire, to be able to do this as long as I live.
The colors of cotton threads can be custom-made to adapt to customer needs.
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