Denilson Baniwa, an artist and member of the Baniwa Indigenous group from the state of Amazonas in Brazil, uses his art to expose how colonial representations have erased the culture and denied the humanity of Indigenous Americans.

For the exhibition Reinventing the Américas, Baniwa collaborated with the Getty Research Institute to generate video artworks, installations, and interventions on historical objects. His contemporary interventions prompt us to see other sides to these representations. Baniwa says, “When I’m faced with a colonial narrative, I’m provoked to find in it what’s invisible to most people.”

This video was part of the exhibition Reinventing the Américas: Construct. Erase. Repeat., which ran at the Getty Center in Los Angeles from August 23, 2022 to January 8, 2023.

Written, Produced, Directed by
Christopher Sprinkle
Brazilian Production Unit
Palavra Comunicação e Produções Culturais
Field Producer
Julia Dias Carneiro
Director of Photography
Rodrigo Pinto
Editor
Elisa Kriezis
Animation
Pixeltown Arts