(this page was last updated in August 2022)
Oiapoque, Brazil, 1976.
Lives and works in Oiapoque, Brazil.
PIPA Prize 2022 nominee.
Yermollay brings us stories of the Karipuna people, interpreting cosmologies with intimacy and presenting new forms for the creation of contemporary indigenous art. Yermollay Caripoune (1976) was born in the Indigenous Land Uaçá, in the village Santa Isabel in Oiapoque (Amapá, Brazil). Belonging to the Karipuna people, his work is inspired by indigenous mythology, rooted in their existential universe, transporting materials and ancestral techniques to a worldview where the real and the imaginary merge.
Video produced by Do Rio Filmes exclusively for PIPA 2022:
Education
2017 – 2021
– Intercultural Indigenous Licensing Course. UNIFAP, Brazil.
2014
– High School. Colégio Impáctus. Macapá-AP, Brazil.
2011
– Elementary school EJA. Macapá-AP, Brazil.
Courses
2015
– Nature photography. Santa Isabel village. Indigenous Land Uaçá. Oiapoque-AP, Brazil.
2006
– Participatory elaboration of cultural projects for indigenous leaderships. Ministry of Culture. Brasília-DF, Brazil.
– Basic Informatics, SENAC. Oiapoque-AP, 2006.
Collective exhibitions
2021
– “Moquém Suraî: contemporary indigenous art”. MAM São Paulo-SP. The exhibition is a co-organization between MAM and Fundação Bienal de São Paulo and is part of the network of partnerships of the 34th Biennial.
2019
– Group exhibition “Shuttle”. CCBB-SP; CCBB-BR; CCBB-BH; CCBB-RJ
“ Yermollay Caripoune: Artista indígena do Oiapoque, Amapá”, 2021. Duration 7’21”
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