Brazil's ecosystems and culture flood its pavilion at Bogota Book Fair

Bogota, Apr 19 (EFE) - Brazil's natural and cultural richness and diversity, with the colors of its "yellow-green" flag as a guide to "read nature", dominate the South American giant's pavilion at the Bogota International Book Fair (FILBo), of which it is the guest of honor.

CAMERA: JUAN DIEGO LOPEZ

FOOTAGE OF THE PAVILION OF BRAZIL, THE GUEST OF HONOR AT THIS YEAR'S BOGOTA BOOK FAIR.

SOUNDBITES OF LUCAS ABREU, CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF FARM & HOUSE, THE FIRM THAT DESIGNED THE SPACE.

TRANSLATION:

The idea was to find a way to express the way of reading nature, bringing in the Brazilian environments that influenced the country's literature.

Brazil is composed of 6 main biomes which are: Pantanal, and Amazon, which is the biome shared with our Latin neighbors, the Pampas, the Atlantic Forest, the Cerrado, and the Catinga.

So what we did was to bring those environments to talk about literature, because each environment is very characteristic, it is as if each one was a different country and each of them influenced the literature of their region in a way, then, the most arid places, stories that tell that more difficult life, that life of migration depending on the environment, the most abundant water places where there is a more colorful jungle, there is that exuberance of the beauty of Brazil.

So the idea was to create an environment that recreates how those environments, how those biomes influenced Brazilian literature, and also to make people who visit the pavilion think about how their environments, their own countries, also influenced their literary appreciation, that was the main idea.

The Amazon, which is the best-known environment in Brazil and is the biome that we share with our Colombian brothers, is the center of our pavilion, so the part of the bookstore is the center of our story, and it is surrounded by the other 5 biomes also important in our country.

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