Estética do mato: visualidades e poéticas da flora latino-americana

Abstract

This research outlines an artistic study with architectural and aesthetic bases, built from creative realisations, cultural depictions and the poetic of space that relate to nature and the vegetation present in the daily lives and imaginations in Latin America. On an experimental basis, we intertwine the western notion of art — analysing visualities and landscape through painting and photography — with spatial experience in rural and ordinary gardens and their aesthetics, which in relation to the established ones, are disobedient. Based on lived experiences in the western part of the State of Paraná (Brazil) and on repertoires and theoretical, technical and artistic references, we reflect on some visual paradigms in the colonised continent. The depictions, the images, the discourses and the views from the thicket about land and about cultivation, paired with a divergent or convergent bodily- sensitivity to modern/colonial aesthetics produce and reproduce ambivalence in depicted and lived space and point towards pluralistic modes of symbolisation, territoriality and temporality which strengthen our critical expression with regards to art and architecture and colonial aesthetic conceptions.