The drawings that taught an artificial intelligence to paint the Amazon rainforest are coming to Art Basel Miami Beach. Indigenous artists Nawashahu and Mukashahu Yawanawa will present The Forest Remembers: Winds of Yawanawa at the fair's Zero 10 section, booth Z6, with previews on 2 and 3 December and public days from 4 to 6 December.

The installation revisits Winds of Yawanawa, the collaboration the two sisters developed with media artist Refik Anadol and Instituto Nixiwaka, first shown at Scorpios in Mykonos in 2023. A twelve-screen installation will show the project's 1,000 digital works, whose movement is shaped by readings from a weather station in the Yawanawa territory and whose soundscape includes Yawanawa song. Alongside it, the sisters' original drawings appear as a new print release, The Breathing Forest, in 25 numbered sets, plus three newly commissioned canvases.

The presentation, part of Generation, the 2026 Miami Beach edition of Zero 10 curated by Karen Archey with Eli Scheinman, is staged by Scorpios with HOFA Gallery and Instituto Nixiwaka, and coordinated by KANAH. For the Yawanawa, the project carries a purpose beyond the fair: proceeds have supported community-led initiatives in their territory, from cultural preservation to village infrastructure, and the Miami showing puts the physical paintings that seeded the digital works in front of an audience that had mostly encountered the project on screen.

Nawashahu has described the paintings as carrying the strength of her ancestry and the magic of her people's spiritual world, while Chief Biraci Brasil Nixiwaka Yawanawa has spoken of the forest as a living being rather than a resource. Anadol, for his part, has argued that artificial intelligence can connect cultures and give them visibility, not only create problems. The Miami installation tests that claim in the most commercial setting in the art world.