FOREST

In FOREST, the reductionist imaginary about nature is portrayed, connecting modern science to the landscape representation of European naturalism in the colonial period. Pigments are chemically extracted from native plants, making them transparent, and producing an insulation between the color and the leaf. From the extracted tones, the idyllic print “Virgin Forest”, by naturalist Johann Moritz Rugendas, was digitally dyed. The word “forest” etymologically means “outer woods”, designating the medieval European interaction with the woods. This relation of exteriority expresses the historical course of the construction of the modern imaginary about the forests: exterior to society, antagonistic to the original form of interaction in the pre-colonial period.