RodriguezRemor

Denis Rodriguez and Leonardo Remor are artists, curators, and researchers. They reflect on the Art–Nature dyad in projects that focus on rural areas, the land, and the transmission of ancestral knowledge and technologies of popular creators and the Native peoples of Eastern South America. Since August 2020, they have resided in Igatu, Chapada Diamantina, Bahia (Brazil), where they founded Mirante Xique-Xique, a para-institution that promotes research residencies in different areas: environment, architecture, cuisine, and arts. Through cultural activities, exchanges, and environmental education, the non-governmental, non-profit organization’s mission is to safeguard the region’s architectural and intangible heritage.

In recent years, based on immersions in different contexts and territories, they have been developing research and pieces focused on a critical view of colonialism/neocolonialism. RodriguezRemor carry out actions and dialogues that result in films, objects, and installations that use methodologies, concepts, and reflections from Anthropology with the aim of questioning the conventional western ethnography that merely systematizes without recognizing that all non-hegemonic knowledge, that is collectively produced, has the potential to propose a real alternative to a world that is collapsing as the result of ideas of modernity and progress.