Paraguayan artist Luis Vera exhibits work on Ayoreo people at Curitiba Biennial

Paraguayan artist Luis Vera's exhibition, "Seguimos vivos, ahora usamos ropa" (We are still alive, now we wear clothes), is currently open in Curitiba, Brazil, as part of the official program for the 2026 International Contemporary Art Biennial of Curitiba and the ArtWeek Curitiba circuit.

The show, hosted at the Cultural Space of the Consulate General of Paraguay in Curitiba, is part of Paraguay's participation in the 16th edition of the Biennial, themed "Thresholds" ("Limiares"), curated by Adriana Almada and Tereza de Arruda.

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this agreement framework is not limited to the withdrawal of the Israelis from Lebanon, allowing the people of the south to return to their homes and villages. Rather, once implemented, it will definitively close the open wound in our south, which has affected all Lebanese.

Vera's artistic proposal delves into themes of memory, survival, and the cultural shifts impacting Ayoreo people living in voluntary isolation in the Chaco region. The exhibition employs digital databending, a technique where the artist manipulates image code. This process incorporates textual records and distress calls concerning Ayoreo communities whose ancestral territories are threatened by deforestation.

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This open wound, contrary to the claims of the various factions of the so-called 'resistance,' has not contributed in the slightest to the Palestinian cause, while at the same time, it has destroyed Lebanon repeatedly.

The exhibition's title is drawn from a phrase documented by anthropologist Benno Glauser in a 2022 study on Ayoreo communities. According to the curatorial text, the phrase conveys messages left by members of a contacted Ayoreo group for relatives remaining in voluntary isolation.

Art critic Ticio Escobar notes that Vera's work uses fragmented and intervened images to reflect on territorial changes and the challenges of reconstructing a comprehensive view of the contemporary Chaco landscape. Vera, born in Asunción in 1961, has a career rooted in photojournalism, documentary photography, and artistic production.

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This agreement will not only expel the Israelis from territory and close the open wound in the south, but it will also rid them of a serious national problem with which they have lived for the past fifty years: the presence of armed groups outside the state, mainly Hezbollah.