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Yakumama

ART AS ACTIVISM · FROM THE AMAZON

The forest’s future
is our own.

An immersive exhibition about the life of the forest and the threats it faces. Created alongside Indigenous forest and water protectors.

Why Yakumama matters
Yakumama: a monumental two-headed serpent with a luminous patterned skin.The open sculpture reveals a passage through six immersive rooms.

Yakumama · A walk-through artwork by Apitatán

Enter the experience ↗

THE PASSAGE THROUGH Yakumama

Enter curious.
Leave connected.

Six encounters carry visitors from ancestral memory and a living forest to the damage of extraction—and the question of what each of us will protect.

Begin the journey
01OriginsStone, memory and the beginning of the journey.02WisdomA vessel, a gathering, knowledge carried forward.03VitalityThe painted forest becomes a living world.04VisionsLight, image and sound shift perception.05ViolationExtraction interrupts the world you just inhabited.06ReflectionThe final image in the exhibition is you.
12–15 minute planned journeyGroups of about eight · To be tested at full scale
A lush painted forest extending into the room.

ART THAT ASKS SOMETHING OF US

Protecting the forest
is protecting life.

Yakumama brings the Amazon’s beauty, memory and vulnerability into a physical encounter. It is a work of art activism, made in partnership with Indigenous leaders and communities who protect forest and water.

Free public access is central to the project. Backing it helps bring that encounter to people who may never enter the rainforest.

Meet the people behind it
BRING Yakumama TO LIFE

Help this journey
reach the public.

Your support brings the artwork, the voices and the experience into a place people can enter.

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