THE RUDIMENTS OF PARADISE

Rudiments of Paradise is a compendium about an inhospitable territory, about the modifications that human activity has produced in it and about how people inhabit this environment.

Day after day the jungle had to be contained, disciplined and adapted to the human order or its illusion. in the eyes of the inhabitants of the jungle there is a sense of defeat at the hands of time, insects, and the river itself. this is the story of a flat, forgotten and suffocating country.

In the Amazon there are multiple cultural identities, these diverse "Amazonías" share as an integrating axis the Amazon River, which give rise to worldviews and particular relationships with the environment.When colonization took place, due to the fact that the indigenous people were enslaved, many of them fled to the interior of the jungle and new settlements were created on the banks of the rivers and lakes. Thus, the cities of the Amazon grew very rapidly, and the great majority of their inhabitants have been settling in the peripheries of the cities that grow towards the interior of the jungle. Between 70 and 80% of the population of the Panamazonia resides in these urban areas and the greatest mobilization has been carried out by the indigenous people of the jungle. The overexploitation of the Amazon basin has damaged the ecological richness of its rainforest, its waters and has forced a non "integral" and "inclusive" urban development of the region, which has contributed to an impoverishment not only economic, but also social and cultural.Rudiments of Paradise is a compendium about an inhospitable territory, about the modifications that human activity has produced in it and about how people inhabit this environment.

Perú, Colombia, Brasil.