Daiara Tukano
Daiara Tukano is an indigenous activist artist born in Brazil who fights for human rights and climate justice. Her artwork highlights the importance and beauty in nature, it is also an invite to preserve it. Another theme very present in Daiara's work is ancestrality and the importance of not letting the indigenous culture and its wisdom be forgotten.
redenção (2022) - The redemption (2022)
Tukano defines herself as an activist, artist, educator and communicator. In this context, her art is also a channel of denunciation about how marginalized indigenous people are in Brazil, despite the great presence of native people, their concerns and safety are very often despised in favor of a minority of landowners who possess most of the lands and seek to acquire more by expelling originary people from their home.
Selva Mãe do Rio Menino (2020) - Jungle mother of Boy River (2020)
Her artwork expresses how indigenous people and climate justice have the same goals and are inherently connected. Throughout memory, resistance and collective thought the artist invites us to think of a future where indigenous knowledge and culture are not marginalized or stereotyped as less important than western knowledge.
mahá - arara vermelha (2021)
Tukano graduated in Visual Arts and has a master's degree in Human Rights both at Brasilia University (UnB), where she is also a researcher on indigenous rights to memory and truth. Her interventions range from paintings on canvas to murals in urban buildings.
“To honor the truth and memory of our people is to follow our struggle and celebrate our identity”
