In 1963, men hired by a rubber company murdered 30 members of the Cinta Larga Amazonian tribe and destroyed their village. Only two villagers survived. This crime is known as the Massacre at 11th Parallel. The rubber company Arruda, Junqueira & Co hired a plane to drop dynamite on the village and gunmen to attack the village on foot with machine guns to kill any survivors. In one horrific instance, one of the gunmen took a baby from a breastfeeding mother and shot the baby's head off. They then hung the woman upside down and sliced her in half. In my work 11th Parallel, I wanted to make it impossible for the viewer - and in particular the Western viewer - to escape the reality of this massacre and therefore understand why the Cinta Larga people became warriors. Pierre Gervois, 11th Parallel (2021), non-fungible token, JPEG image, 1.1MB, 2390 x 2390 pixels, 1/1
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