SOULLESS NATURE
by Anaïs Karenin & Eduardo Padilha
to what point is our conception on nature based on symbolic means crystallized in the collective imaginary?
WOULD GREEN be filter through which we look and categorize being as natural or synthetic?
How to question the discourse (and the semiotics) of the construction of natural?
SOULLESS NATURE explores the influence of the symbol of colors in the form of plant pigments over our perception of what is and isn’t “natural”.
Anaïs Karenin & Eduardo Padilha
ANAIS is an artist and researcher, her work discusses the relationship with nature and its contrasts with artificial materials, acting on the boundaries between animate and inanimate beings. From installations, sculptures, objects, sound and performances, the artist establishes symbiotic relations between distinct elements, raising the cultural paradoxes in the definition of what is or is not life, what is or is not spirit. His works face the condition of the ephemerality and impermanence of time. Studying PhD in Visual Poetics at PPGAV/USP, She holds a master's degree in Arts from PPGArtes/UERJ, where he researched the frontier as an interstice, through the encounters and contrasts between aesthetics and nature in Japan, the philosophy of Shintoism and the nature of the backlands of Ceará and the aesthetics of animism. He has exhibited at art institutions and halls, including CMAHO, CCJF, Paço Imperial, Oi Futuro, 14th Itajai Art Salon, and has participated in art residencies in Brazil and Japan, including Rice Valley Project in Kyoto. In 2019 held the solo exhibition “Invisible / Immaterial” at the HighPOP gallery in Tokyo. She has been a researcher in herbal medicine for 8 years and develops works of art direction and scenography from the botanical theme.
EDUARDO is an in(ter)disciplinary researcher and scientist, working with Molecular Genetics and DNA repair since he was 13 years old. Winner of the First Place in the Brazilian Science and Engineering Fair (FEBRACE 2014), was part of the brazilian delegation at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF, LA, USA, 2014). For his work in scientific research he was a recipient of the Jovens Fora de Série Award by Estudar Foundation (2014) as well as other achievements in different scientific conferences and competitions (MOP 2013/iGEM 2016/FARM-DNA 2018). Academic of the University of Sao Paulo, he coordinated the I Biohack Academy by Waag Society in Sao Paulo (2015) and has since been a member of the Open Science Hardware/DIY Biology community. Exploring the intersections between science, art, design and philosophy, he has delivered lectures, workshops and shared his work in Brazil (Campus Party, 2018/Festival Path, 2019), Chile (GOSH 2017), China (GOSH, 2018) and the USA (DigiFabCon, 2017).
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