Memórias de alagamento [Flooded memories] is the first institutional solo exhibition in Colombia by the Amazonian artist Uýra, whose work intertwines water, identity, and resistance to challenge environmental devastation and forced displacement.

The title of the exhibition, Memórias de alagamento [Flooded memories], evokes water’s ability to remember its course and reappear even after being buried. In her work, Uýra explores how bodies of water preserve the memory of territories and their inhabitants, connecting Amazonian rivers with urban water basins that have been contaminated, diverted, or erased.

In A porra da árvore (2019), A terra pelada (2018), and the series Mil quase mortos (2018), Uýra channels the lament of the rainforest devastated by extractivism, denouncing indiscriminate deforestation and river pollution in the urban context of Manaus. These works transform nature into both witness and spokesperson for the environmental crisis.

During her residency in Bogotá, the artist delved into the San Francisco-Vicachá River, a waterway buried beneath the city. This process led to a reflection on the shared history of displaced Indigenous communities in Colombia and Brazil, drawing parallels between the diaspora of the Munduruku people—to which Uýra belongs—and the struggles of the Muisca peoples in the Bogotá Savanna.

The exhibition is structured into three movements: traversing, reflecting, and connecting. Water flows through territories and time, reflecting the transformations of landscapes and societies, while its channels serve as links between geographies, memories, and multidimensional realities.

Through a practice that merges biology, Indigenous ecology, and performance, Uýra reinterprets the relationship between body and territory. Her work is a call to reclaim the silenced voices of nature and communities that have been forced to disappear.