THE FUTURE IS INDIGENOUS. AMAZONIAN VISIONS AND STRUGGLES
EL FUTURO ES INDÍGENA. VISIONES Y LUCHAS DE LA AMAZONÍA
The article reviews the exhibition "The Future is Indigenous. Amazonian Visions and Struggles," curated by Alfredo Villar at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne, Germany, in 2026. The show was conceived as a critical response to Sebastião Salgado's photographic exhibition "Amazônia," which Villar argues presents an idealized, essentialist, and ahistorical view of the Amazon and its Indigenous peoples. In contrast, Villar's exhibition features works by Indigenous and Amazonian artists such as Gê Viana, Natália Tupi, Rodrigo Duarte, Paulo Desana, and Olinda Silvano, using photography, video, installations, embroidery, and posters to depict a contemporary, urbanized, and diverse Amazon marked by cultural hybridity, extractivism, and neocolonial threats.