Curucucu Divino is a project produced during the Festival Cavalhadas, held as a festivity of the Holy Spirit in Pirenópolis, Goiás, Brazil. The project unfolds as an exhibition, a photobook featuring more than 200 images and a short documentary-epic film. The work is the result of a carefully developed process spanning 22 years of planning and research.

The Cavalhadas are a folkloric reenactment already lasting over 200 years, representing the nearly eight centuries of medieval battles between Moors and Christians in the Iberian Peninsula.

The exhibition at Galeria da Gávea, in Rio de Janeiro, presents 47 photographs organized into three Acts – a structure that echoes the theatrical logic of the festival. The same approach has been inserted into the photobook.

The three Acts that structure the project are visually distinct. Act I, Divine, consists of photographs dominated by the clear blue sky of the Cerrado. Act II, Profane, brings together nighttime photographs taken with flash. Act III, Curucucu, groups images set against a large canvas installed in the vast parking area adjacent to the Cavalhódromo.

According to the artist, “Perhaps the intersection between the three acts is the absence of geography. You don’t quite understand what place this is — you see the sky, a bit of architecture, a glimpse of the Cavalhódromo, where the celebration takes place.”

According to curator Victor Gorgulho, the three different sections in which Young's photographs are presented “unfold in three distinct acts that function as interpretive keys to the festival in Goiás”. “The artist invites the viewer to enter the celebration through both familiar and unexpected paths - classical yet radically contemporary - revealing nuances, layers, and surprising readings of one of Brazil's greatest popular festivals.”