Joseca Yanomami

27 Feb-24 Apr 2026

Overview

Cecilia Brunson Projects is proud to present the first UK solo exhibition of Joseca Yanomami (b. 1971, Yanomami Indigenous Territory, Brazil), comprising a focused selection of three works on paper.

Born in a remote Yanomami community in the Amazon, Joseca Yanomami’s practice emerged from his profound relationship to shamanic knowledge, dream states, and the cosmology of the forest-land-world, known as urihi. His works are not representations but translations, visions drawn from dreams shaped by the mythic chants of shamans, where humans, animals and ancestral spirits coexist in harmony.

This intimate presentation brings together three works that form a concise, yet powerful, narrative of Joseca Yanomami’s artistic practice. Together, these works articulate a complete cosmological system, exploring the importance of knowledge, dreaming, and territory to the Yanomami community. Their beauty lies in their ability to encapsulate the three fundamental pillars of Yanomami understanding: becoming, knowing, and maintaining a relationship with the wider world. They provide a powerful and coherent sense of environmental symbiosis.

At a time of increasing ecological urgency, Joseca Yanomami’s work offers a radically different understanding of the forest: not as landscape, but as a living network of relationships. This exhibition marks a rare opportunity to encounter his work in London for the first time.

Joseca Yanomami (b. 1971, Watoriki, Yanomami Indigenous Territory, Brazil) has dedicated himself to drawing characters, scenes, and landscapes from his culture since the early 2000s. Exhibited internationally since 2003, he received his first solo exhibition, Our Earth Forest (Kami Yamakɨ Urihipë) at MASP, São Paulo in 2022. In 2024, he was featured in the 60th International Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. Other group exhibitions include The Yanomami Struggle at the Shed, New York (2023), Les Vivants, Fondation Cartier, Paris (2022),and Power Station of Art, Shanghai (2021). Joseca Yanomami’s work is currently included in Exposition Générale, the inaugural exhibition of Fondation Cartier’s Place du Palais Royal, Paris, and in the nightly projection event Badu Gili: Story Keepers at the Sydney Opera House, in collaboration with the Biennale of Sydney and the Fondation Cartier.