Japanese Pavilion in Ibirapuera Park Will Receive the Brazilian Indigenous Stools Exhibition

On June 9^th, the Japanese Pavilion, located in Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo, will hold the Brazilian Indigenous Stools exhibition with pieces from the BEĨ collection. Seventy stools will be on display, produced by peoples from different regions of the Upper and Lower Xingu, South Amazon, North Pará, Northwest Amazon and Midwest Brazil. The exhibition represents and pays homage to the relationship between the Brazilian and Japanese cultures, in a time when the 110^th year of Japanese immigration in Brazil is being celebrated.

The exhibition, with a layout by designer Claudia Moreira Salles and architect Eji Hayakawa, reveals the cultural importance of the stools and evidences the intersections between the Japanese and indigenous cultures: both revere tradition, cultivate accuracy and aesthetic sophistication, and share a posture of complete integration with nature, translated by the intensive and sustainable use of wood. In the end, this show is about a multicultural outlook of the relationship between raw material and final work, the use of material and its preservation, nature and artistic production.