The Wounds
of the Landscape

The Wounds of the Landscape brings together oil paintings on paper that investigate the relationship between body and nature as living, vulnerable, and interdependent materials. Using magnetic resonance imaging of the pelvis, Tamirys Araujo brings the interior of the body closer to roots, entrails, wombs, soils, and scars, intertwining these forms with the forest and dissolving the boundaries between human and landscape.

 

Between contemplation and discomfort, the paintings make visible wounds that are simultaneously intimate, bodily, and environmental. The support itself participates in this process: the oil slowly penetrates the paper and expands beyond the image, forming stains that the artist calls the "cry of the image." The painting thus remains in transformation. More than representing nature, the series stems from the awareness that we are not external to the landscape: we are part of it.

 

View of the exhibition

The Wounds of the Landscape, 2024

Peripheral Art Gallery, Lisbon