黑料不打烊

Aislan Pankararu was born in 1990 in Petrol芒ndia, a small city in the interior of the state of Pernambuco and belongs to the indigenous Pankararu people of Northeastern Brazil. His work is informed by three streams: the Caatinga biome of Northeastern Brazil, the traditions and cultures鈥攅specially body painting鈥攐f his Indigenous Brazilian community, and his university training in medicine. The rich complexity of these simultaneous pursuits鈥攈ow the body functions, how we heal, how we retain and honor communities and traditions, our relation to the outside, natural world鈥攁malgamate knowledge traditions, patterning, and visual delight through each of the paintings and drawings in this exhibition, his first in the United States.

The works presented in Endless River refer to and build upon Pankararu鈥檚 unique worldview through the visual and material alike: the white pigment used in many of his paintings is a natural clay material traditionally used by the Pankararu to adorn the body for ceremonies, making each monochromatic work a body, a group of bodies, and a sampler of ornamental possibility. Other works burst with color, showing the vibrant and fecund natural world of cacti, roots, leaves, seed pods, and flowers that reference the earthy terrains and flora as well as the ingredients and elements for healing, as well as the forest setting where healers work.