We live in a time marked by multiple forms of disconnection: from ourselves, from others, and from the world. In different parts of the planet, we witness the weakening of community bonds, a loss of meaning, social polarization, and an increasing difficulty in imagining other ways of living together. It is from this context that the Pedra Azul Social Art Residency emerges: as a space for investigation, experimentation, and shared creation, interested in exploring how we can expand the ways we perceive, imagine, and relate to the world.
The residency was inspired by different lines of thought that invite us to question dominant ways of living and to cultivate plurality. Ailton Krenak, when speaking of a kind of contemporary monoculture, helps us recognize how our ways of living can become impoverished when we reduce the diversity of ways of existing. Geni Nuñez invites us to think about the possibility of reforesting worlds, creating conditions for other forms of existence, knowledge, coexistence, and belonging to flourish. These and other references — including Davi Kopenawa, Timothy Morton, and contemporary discussions around polycrisis — formed part of the field of thought that inspired the residency and helped shape its central question: How can we make other possible worlds visible?