In the early morning of that day we woke up with the news that in a performative act, the visual artist Leoni ceased to exist, as a protest against the imminent loss of a region that represents the identity of Santa Cruz, important for its ecology, history and culture, currently threatened by subjugation, deforestation and forest fires: the Chiquitania and its forests.

As a posthumous memory Leoni prepared months in advance the “Last Goodbye” with reflections on our cultural identity and our natural heritage that are disappearing.

Today the chiquitanos, yarituses and piñocas grandparents cry, their eyes behind the masks look at us with sadness and the pachochises have a rhythm of pain for the disappearance of their habitat and their own culture. Now the painter who represented them and made them known says his goodbyes in a performative act and goes to meet the flora, fauna and cultural identity that died before our eyes and our passivity for a long time.
 

This performance denounces the imminent loss of a region, important for its ecology, history and culture, currently threatened by subjugation, deforestation and forest fires: forests. In this analogy of the loss of a loved one with the disappearance of culture and forests, it is that a reality that is not visible to everyone becomes perceptible. It is necessary to say the last goodbye for a new beginning.