Osvaldo Pitoé: Towards the Past: Memories of the Gran Chaco
Cecilia Brunson Projects presents Towards the Past: Memories of the Gran Chaco, the first UK exhibition by Osvaldo Pitoé (b. 1963), an indigenous Nivaclé artist of the Paraguayan Chaco. Pitoé first came to prominence in Europe in the landmark exhibition Trees (2019) at Fondation Cartier, Paris, which positioned him as an important emerging voice advocating for the preservation of indigenous ways of living in union with the forest and its ecosystems.
The exhibition takes its title from yma guaré (towards the past), a Nivaclé expression loaded with an intense and palpable feeling of nostalgia. It reflects the sentiments at the heart of these works: a longing for a way of life in the forest and a deep melancholy for everything that is lost.
Cecilia Brunson Projects is working in collaboration with Fernando Allen and the Artes Vivas collective in Paraguay.
