Memórias de alagamento [Flooded Memories]
Memórias de alagamento Flooded Memories] is the first institutional solo exhibition in Colombia by UÝRA, a trans-Indigenous artist and biologist from Manaus, in the Brazilian Amazon. Blending performance, photography and installation, her work channels the vitality of the rainforest while exposing the violence of extractivism. Through elemental forces—water, fire, mud, forest—UÝRA becomes both witness and voice of the non-human world.
Water is central to her vision: as life-source, but also as metaphor for memory and mourning. The exhibition’s title refers to her childhood by the river and to rivers’ lingering memory, even when dammed or buried.
Developed during a residency in Bogotá, the show follows the buried San Francisco–Vicachá River, linking its disappearance to the transformation of the Bogotá Savanna. These local traumas echo across the continent, where rivers carry both ecological and cultural significance. Structured in three key movements—traversing, reflecting, connecting—the exhibition presents a ritual of reawakening, reminding us that what flows is never truly lost.