Sebastião Salgado's Amazonia is on display at MAXXI in Rome

MAXXI in Rome has extended until April 25 Amazônia, Sebastião Sal gado’s photography exhibition curated by Lélia Wanick Salgado.

For six years Sebastião Salgado, winner of the Praemium Imperiale 2021, has traveled in the Brazilian Amazon, photographing the forest, rivers, mountains and the people who live there.

The exhibition, with more than 200 works, immerses us in the universe of the forest by bringing together Salgado’s impressive photographs with the concrete sounds of the forest. The rustling of trees, the cries of animals, the singing of birds or the roar of water coming down from mountaintops, collected on site, compose a soundscape, created by Jean-Michel Jarre.

The exhibition highlights the fragility of this ecosystem, showing that in the protected areas where the Indian communities, ancestral guardians, live, the forest has suffered almost no damage and invites us to see, listen and reflect on the ecological situation and the relationship humans have with it today.

For all information, you can visit MAXXI’s official website.

Pictured: Mariuá River Archipelago. Rio Negro. Amazonas state, Brazil, 2019.

Sebastião Salgado's Amazonia is on display at MAXXI in Rome

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