Dias & Riedweg have invited a group of funk dancers to re-stage nine of the original woodcuts from Hans Staden’s (1527-1578) book “True Story and Description of a Country of Wild, Naked, Grim, Man-eating People in the New World, America
“. In these scenes, the dancers celebrate their music and their culture in a grill party at the top of a favela in Rio de Janeiro, in which they restage some of the archetypical images that since 1557 have contributed to build up the concept of exotism through modern times.
