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It’s no coincidence that two great art and cultural historians, Georges Didi-Huberman and Enzo Traverso, have engaged in a fascinating public debate on Gilles Caron’s photograph on the cover of the catalog for the “Soulèvements” exhibition organized by the former. This essay brings together worlds far removed in time and space—from ancient Greece to the Amazon rainforest—through the similarity of a gesture and an attitude, its meaning and its reversal. Today, indigenous mobilizations are taking on quite unexpected expressions: in April 2023, gathered at the Terre Libre Camp in Brasilia, many indigenous peoples launched new words—indigenisar, mulherizar, oncificar—to express their movements and uprisings. This new vocabulary was accompanied by a wide range of image practices, including demonstrations, performances, projections and paintings.