Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha

Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha is a Brazilian artist who works in the fields of performance, direction, research and environmental artistic activism. She has worked in theatre with directors such as Ariane Mnouchkine, Georgette Fadel, Felipe Vidal, Ivan Sugahara, Celina Sodré, Isaac Bernart and Pedro Brício and acted in several films by Brazilian film makers. She is part of Aruac Filmes and the creator of the Margins Project – On Rivers, Buiúnas and Fireflies, a multilingual project based on listening to the testimony of Brazilian rivers experiencing catastrophe. The scope of this project has already included plays (Guerrilla or For Land There Are No Missing Persons (2015) and Altamira 2042 (2019)), feature and short documentary films, publications, debates, workshops, the Buiunas network – a network between women, rivers and art – and, more recently, the acquisition of land on the banks of the Xingu River to create a space for artistic residence.

Altamira 2042 was shown at important festivals and theatrical spaces, such as the Wiener Festwochen, Festival d'Automne à Paris, International Summer Festival Kampnagel in Hamburg, Baltic Circle, Holland Festival, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, Centre Georges Pompidou and others. In partnership with Eryk Rocha, she directed the film The Falling Sky based on the homonymous work of Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa and anthropologist Bruce Albert, which premiered at the Quinzaine des Realisateurs in Cannes. Currently, Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha prepares her next work on the Tapajós River.