Native Fruition in Catimbau - (Ethno)graphy Projecting the Past Present

The present research reports a graphic immersion in the rock art sites of Catimbau (Pernambuco, Brazil). A mapping of the symbols and intersubjective assimilations awakens when observing the rock art as the ancestral device, in dialogue with the indigenous people of the region. The set of graphs present in the surroundings of the Catimbau National Park comprises several cultural manifestations, where symbols expressing rituals, daily and sacred artifacts, the beings of the caatinga, and community articulations are identified. The intention is to present the graphic symbols related to the intersubjectivities and appropriations in the community’s symbolism. The investigation starts from the Kapinawá indigenous territory, allying itself with a group of subjects of the ethnic group for the recognition and updated production, a resumption of the graphic codes. In understanding their symbolic system, one must consider their history of resistance and understand the cultural emergences of the Northeastern Indigenous connected to the process of ethnic self-identification. An interdisciplinary investigation oriented on the ethnographic method of Anthropology focused on the visual expressions of art and mediated by the project perspective of Design.