Title: O Sertão
Description: The show has about 800 works, including paintings, sculptures, etchings, ex-votos, clothing, photographs, installations and documents, reproducing the environment in which man lives in the backcountry. It is a multi-media show that also has as a main theme the exploration of mysticism and the rough living circumstance in the backcountry of Brazil.
Subjects: Exhibitions, History, Cowboys, Social life and customs, Priests, Outlaws
Places: Northeast Brazil, Brazil
People: Cícero Romão Batista (1844-1934), Lampião (1900-1938)
Time periods: Canudos Campaign, 1893-1897