Wauja/ Turuza brazilian, b. Brazilian

The indigenous artist Tsiuya Turuza Waurá was born in 1990 and currently lives in the Tsekuru village in the indigenous land of Xingu (MT/ Brésil).

Turuza attended the Piyulaga basic state school, in the village of the same name (of the Waurá ethnic group) until he was 28, but it was from his parents that he learned the techniques of wood and ceramic sculpture.

Since his childhood he has always accompanied his parents doing crafts and art. His mother, Yamunuwa Waurá, makes ceramic pots (the greatest art of Etinia Waura), nets of buriti threads and baskets of buriti splints.

His father, Apayupi Waurá, makes zoomorphic wooden benches following the tradition of the indigenous community, and it was from him that Turuza learned the wood carving techniques.

In 2015, he began his trajectory, with the aim of spreading the aesthetic richness of the arts and the living culture of indigenous peoples to the world through their sculptures. Without losing sight of its relationship with the traditional knowledge/doing of the Waura community.