New World Photographic Exhibition
At: Favela Chic, 91-93 Great Eastern Street, London
Monday to Sunday from 5.00 pm
Opening evening on Thursday March 5th, 2009
To receive an invitation, email aurelie@veja.fr
The New World
The New World has since a long time been tamed and its virgin land conquered by dint of human dreams and madness. This tremendous continent has always been the scene of excessiveness : megalopolises such as São Paulo or New York, long roads crossing the Amazonian forest through and through, huge farming lands, new religions… This inordinate conquest harbours disillusion and resentment, lays waste to forest, heightens inequalities, replaces family cultivations by genetically modified cultivations….
Terra do Futuro ?
A new conception of the world is coming to the fore. Trades,
production, and land cultivation have been reconsidered by people who
try to regain, on the ground and in the field, esteem and dignity. Novo
Mundo(s) sets out two of these initiatives : In Ceará, a dry and poor
area in the North East of Brazil, a cooperative of cotton producers
have pitched on organic growing. In the Amazon, rubber tappers recently
freed from the great landlords domination live on rubber harvesting and
fight for the preservation of the oldest forest of the world. Are the keys for another world not there ?
Photographer Florent Demarchez has followed the 2 founders of Veja in
Brazil. His photographs reveals the arising of new initiatives which
fight for a different world on the edge of the global economy.
Press contact : aurelie@veja.fr — 020 3355 83 55
www.veja.fr
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