Daiara Tukano

Dimitrie Daiara Hori (1982, São Paulo, Brazil), whose traditional name is Duhigô, belongs to the Uremiri Hãusiro Parameri clan of the Yepá Mahsã people, better known as the Tukano, from the Amazonian region of Alto Rio Negro. At the time of her birth, her family was living in São Paulo, joining the great indigenous political movement that preceded the Brazilian Constituent Assembly (1987-1988). An artist, teacher, indigenous rights activist, and communicator, Tukano, who holds a postgraduate degree in human rights and is a researcher on indigenous peoples’ right to truth and memory, also coordinated Rádio Yandê, the first indigenous online radio in Brazil. Her work is inseparable from the ancestral culture of the Tukano people who, like other indigenous Amazonian groups, use the native ayahuasca medicine in their rituals. Influenced by this practice, whose mystical visions, known as Hori, permeate all Tukano visual culture, Daiara produces images that evoke aspects of existence that are usually invisible to the eye.