TESTAMENTO will showcase and facilitate the sale of both art and artifacts created by the Paiter Surui and Cinta Larga communities themselves as a way to educate the public about the rich cultural heritage of the two tribes. All too often, we’ve seen indigenous art exoticised, appropriated and even pilfered.

Unfortunately, this is true of organizations and artists who are ostensibly trying to help or bring attention to the indigenous communities. With TESTAMENTO, our dedication to community and to education hopes to eschew these common pitfalls and allow the true creative voice of the indigenous people to speak for itself.

In this way, cultural education and artistic appreciation can become catalysts for each other, working in a cyclical fashion: By educating and providing resources for the Paiter Surui and Cinta Larga, the two tribes will be able to use the tools and technology to architect their own historical narrative in a unique way. This will, in turn, educate the “outside” world to the tribes’ struggle and elucidate their creative vision and cultural heritage in a groundbreaking new way.

For the SuperRare ecosystem, this means two things: For one, holding the sale of TESTAMENTO on the SuperRare platform will bring outside exposure and high visibility/credibility to what is, both artistically and anthropologically, an extraordinary project. While sales from TESTAMENTO will have immediate financial benefits, on a broader scale, we have already begun speaking to larger news and media organizations whose coverage of the exhibit has the potential to spotlight the indigenous struggle and recognize SuperRare as a prime mover in helping to ameliorate that struggle.

Secondly, our aim is to culminate the TESTAMENTO exhibit with a multimedia event featuring members of the Paiter Surui and Cinta Larga on hand to discuss and illuminate not just the art and artifacts indicative of their cultural heritage, but to engage in a larger dialogue about how MONOGRAMA, SuperRare and the tribes themselves are working to build a better future for the environment and indigenous communities IRL through blockchain, NFTs and Web3 tech.