Early Life and Indigenous Roots Gustavo Caboco, born in Curitiba, Brazil, in 1989, is an artist whose work is deeply interwoven with his Wapichana heritage. His journey into art wasn’t a conventional one; it blossomed from the stories shared by his mother, Lucilene Wapichana, who herself was uprooted from her community in the Canauanim indigenous territory of Roraima at the tender age of ten. This early exposure to displacement and cultural severance became a foundational element shaping Caboco's artistic vision. His childhood was marked by a growing awareness of his identity, nurtured throu…