The poetics of nature through the eyes of Darli de Oliveira

Abstract

This article investigates the artistic work of visual artist Darli de Oliveira through a series called "Poetics of nature," produced between 2010 and 2011. In this series, the artist delves into the poetic manifestations that a visual work achieves through elements of nature, in an artistic investigation that connects contemporary art with primitive art and proposes a symbiosis between art, humanity, and nature. In a time of accelerated technological transformation, of increasing artificialization of life in its multiple dimensions, the perception of an ever-increasing distance from so-called "nature" seems inescapable. Darli de Oliveira is an artist of a reality that has nature in material form, in which the minerals, the chemistry of oxides, botany, and the animals used in her work break down the distinction between nature and culture.