The Amazon is not just a
setting. It is a living
presence, a collective
memory, a guardian of
enduring myths.
This work is also a political gesture: a reminder that the Amazon is not just scenery
but a living, breathing presence, keeper of memory and of myths that refuse to
vanish. By bringing the bead — small, seemingly fragile, yet immense in meaning —
to the center of the experience, Elaine invites us to see art as a place where time,
peoples, and ways of being meet and reconcile.
Delicate yet powerful, these beads take center stage as sacred particles, symbols of
the crossings between forces and knowledge: they carry Indigenous memory, Afro-
diasporic histories, colonial exchanges, and acts of resistance. They release color,
energy, and signs into the installation, creating atmospheres of silence and
reverence — sparks of light amid the white of water, the gold of the sun, the green of
the forest.
There is something ritualistic in the way everything comes together: image, sound,
color, space, and silence. “Images Told in Beads” is a crossing — an invitation to be
touched by what vibrates even when it remains unseen. Because, in the end, the
forest and its beads remain there, shimmering, reminding us that in Elaine Pessoa’s
work, what shines is not just light — it is permanence.
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