The Mbya Guaraní are an ethnic group that is a natural inhabitant of the Paranaense Forest, which extends between Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. Nomads in favor of ecological balance for thousands of years, their movements are journeys towards the Land without Evil, their heaven.

These are populations that have lived for three thousand years within the jungle ecosystem without depredating it, and adopting the perspective of the interrelations between nature and culture, which has shaped their cosmology and their religiosity.

For the Guaraní, I is us. Every product of hunting, of nature and of their effort is shared with the community. They place their gods on the horizons, in the rivers and trees, in the song of the birds and the gifts of animals. They conceive the world as a bio-spiritual system where all existence has a soul. For them, words form the system of sounds with which the interiority communicates with the environment. The word is the essence of their being, it is their soul.

Baskets are the symbol of the Mbya being. Sacred materials capable of conferring magical powers are used to make them: akura, with which baskets are woven to produce corporality, and güembé, with which ornaments are woven, which are the design of the soul-words, to give rise to spirituality.

Mbya Guaraní basketry is an art that synthesizes the complexity of the thinking of the people of the jungle.