The Jaguar’s Road: Introduction (opens in new tab)

For [Micheliny] Verunschk, the images in the São Paulo exhibition became an obsession. ‘The figures were very familiar to me,’ she said in a 2021 interview, ‘but finding them there, in the original, their faces looking at me, it was disturbing.’ She visited the exhibition countless times over several years, trying to understand the nature of this disturbance, its origin. As a trained historian, she said, her first impulse was to conduct research, to dig for whatever information might be avail...