中文简介：

埃尔韦西亚是一个位于巴西南部的村庄，其名字源自瑞士。200年前，这个村庄由瑞士和德国殖民者建立，在种植咖啡的广阔庄园中获得了巨大的财富。然而，这种财富是建立在非洲裔奴隶的剥削之上的。在19世纪中期，每200名白人殖民者就有2000名非洲裔奴隶。

尽管如此，今天埃尔韦西亚的居民大多数仍然是黑人，许多人不知道自己社区的起源。瑞士摄影师多姆·斯马兹（Dom Smaz）通过与当地居民交流并拍摄当地生活的照片，试图挖掘这个村庄的历史痕迹。

斯马兹的照片和莎莉尼·兰德里亚（Shalini Randeria）等人提供的文字资料揭示了全球相互联系的历史和延续到现在的过去的权力关系。这些作品让我们重新审视历史和瑞士财富的起源，并引发对全球社会正义和平等问题的深思。

英文简介：

The most “African” of the Brazilian villages in the south of Bahia bears a Swiss name. Helvécia was founded 200 years ago by Swiss and German colonists, and the coffee grown on its vast estates produced great wealth for them. This would not have been possible without exploitation: in the mid-19th century, for every 200 white colonists, there were 2,000 slaves of African origin. Black people still make up the majority of the population today; many do not know the origins of their community.

With great sensitivity and in dialogue with the inhabitants, Swiss photographer Dom Smaz goes in search of traces of the past, capturing the lives of the local people. Smaz's pictures and text contributions by Shalini Randeria, among others, allow a new look at history and the origins of Switzerland's wealth, revealing global histories of interconnectedness and power relations of the past that continue into the present.