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On Yara (2025), the artist writes: “Yara, or Iara Tupinambá, our Mother of the Waters. Return to end the thirst and the drought in the Amazon. Our rivers are calling you.” Known as Iara or Uiara, meaning “Lady of the Waters,” and also as “Mother of the Waters,” she is regarded as the guardian of rivers, fishing, and nature.
Moara Tupinambá (1983) is a transdisciplinary artivist and curator. She is a Tupinambá from the Amazon and works with collage, painting, textile art, and muralism, intertwining ancestral knowledge, spirituality, and counter-colonial critique. Her works move between urban territories and the forest, focusing on memory and Indigenous resistance.
She has been part of important exhibitions in Brazil and abroad, and her solo shows include: Mirasawá, o que a tempestade não leva, at the Museu Nacional da República (2025); Maenry – Tupinambá, eu existo, at the Museu do Estado do Pará (2024); Ressurgences of Amazon, at Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria (2021); and Kunhã Strength, at Aesop Sydney, Australia (2020).
The group shows in which she participated include: Ta’ãngaa, os indígenas por eles mesmos (2025); Bienal de Sydney – NIRIN, Australia (2020); and I Bienal das Amazônias, Belém (2023), with subsequent presentations in Maranhão (2024) and Colombia (2025). She has received distinctions such as the Prêmio Instituto Tomie Ohtake (2022) and the Prêmio Salão Paranaense – Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Paraná – MAC-PR (2020), and took part in the 30th edition of the Programa de Exposições do Centro Cultural São Paulo – CCSP (2020).