Lia Porto
SELVA MISIONERA 2: AM (MISSIONARY FOREST 2:AM), 2010. From the series NESTS. Acrylic on canvas, 152 cm by 95 cm.
My work is essentially organic; it refers to the natural world but always as a kind of fiction. An ‘artificial nature’ in a way... The elements may sound familiar but they have their own development, their own language. I’m attracted to the nutritive, the affluent, the gorgeous. The nature recreated is attached to the plenitude and to the interrelationship between things. This is then translated into a complex process that escapes from emptiness in the search of saturation and simultaneity, the imbrication of images. I work over the surfaces as if they where fields, in which a profuse universe appears and develops and particular events are simultaneously occurring. There is a rhythm, a movement, like in the water or the air. Something that leaves traces in the canvas, traces that evidence the search, the joy, the tension, the balance. liaporto.com 59