UÝRA

Memórias de alagamento

March – June 2025
MAMBO – Bogotá Museum of Modern Art, Colombia

Memórias de alagamento [Flooded Memories] is the first institutional solo exhibition in Colombia by UÝRA, a trans-Indigenous artist and biologist from Manaus, in the Brazilian Amazon. Blending performance, photography and installation, her work channels the vitality of the rainforest while exposing the violence of extractivism. Through elemental forces—water, fire, mud, forest—UÝRA becomes both witness and voice of the non-human world.

Water is central to her vision: as life-source, but also as metaphor for memory and mourning. The exhibition’s title refers to her childhood by the river and to rivers’ lingering memory, even when dammed or buried. Works like That Damn Tree (2019) and A Thousand Near Dead (2018) evoke the scars left by deforestation and urban neglect.

Developed during a residency in Bogotá, the show follows the buried San Francisco–Vicachá River, linking its disappearance to the transformation of the Bogotá Savanna. These local traumas echo across the continent, where rivers carry both ecological and cultural significance.

Structured in three key movements—traversing, reflecting, connecting—the exhibition incorporates testimonies from the Muisca Indigenous Council of Bosa, grounding UÝRA’s art in local memory. More than critique, her work is a ritual of reawakening, reminding us that what flows is never truly lost.