This work emerges from a ritual-carnal encounter between an artist of Tremembé Indigenous origin and the only Indigenous statue in Portugal. It uses the colonial statue of Father António Vieira, located in the public space of Lisbon as a departure point, in order to problematize the continuities of the colonial imaginary and the symbolic violence inscribed in monuments. The work articulates word, gesture and sound as forms of re-enchantment and confrontation, transforming the monumental space into a territory of healing and memory through the activation of enchanted beings. 

The performed text summons counter-colonial perspectives silenced over more than five hundred years of colonization, questioning the processes of erasure, forced catechism, baptism and dehumanization embedded both in history and in the sculpture’s iconography. By addressing the kneeling bodies represented in the sculptural work, the performance restores to them movement, identity and ancestry, breaking with the paternalistic narrative and with colonial categories. Finally, water, honey, corn and light are offered so that the *kurumin* may run deep into the forest.

Director and Screenplay: Izabelle Louise; Cinematography: Fernanda Leme; Editing: Tatiana Nequete