Gallery 4. Nature and Imaginaries


The current environmental crisis has revealed the fragile balance that sustained the perception of an imperturbable nature, making its representation acquire a new and decisive relevance. From their earliest artistic manifestations, realistic or fantastic allusions to nature unite knowledge, customs, and beliefs. Currently, there are concerns about the consequences of raw material extraction models, consumption, and the pressure exerted by the human species on all ecosystems.  The observation of nature reveals patterns that lend themselves to establishing unusual connections between cultural and scientific disciplines, generating transversal systems of thought that could offer solutions to the current crisis.  By adding these systems to the iconographic models analyzed from anthropology and cultural studies, it is possible to combine a repertoire of ancestral and contemporary signs and symbols capable of containing and shaping knowledge in fl­ux.

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