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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent

‘It’s not a bubble’: Indigenous art comes to London after post-Venice backlash

An installation composed of tarrafa nets, feather mantles and letters
Glicéria Tupinambá, right, with her niece, Jessica, at Glicéria’s installation at the 2024 Venice Biennale. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

At last year’s Venice Biennale, the pavilions were packed with Indigenous art from around the world.

Artists from the Tupinambá community in Brazil sat alongside work by the late Rosa Elena Curruchich, who made pieces about Indigenous women in Guatemala. The Amazonian artist Aycoobo was celebrated, as were carvings by the Māori artist Fred Graham. The eventual winner of the Golden Lion – the event’s highest accolade – was the Indigenous Australian artist Archie Moore.

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