(…) “We have distanced ourselves from
this organism of which we are a part, the
Earth, and we have started to think that
it is one thing and we are another: the
Earth and humanity. I do not understand
where something that is not natural can
be found. Everything is nature.”

— Ideas to Postpone the End of the
World, Ailton Krenak (p.16-17)

Evaluating the relationship that humanity
establishes with nature is one of the most
significant indicators of its civilizational
state. When an ancestral type of humannature relationship, based either on the
personification of natural elements or
on human admiration and respect for
nature, is replaced by a purely extractive
relationship, we advance rapidly towards
the zero degree of civilization, because,
in this type of relationship, this other will
cease to exist.

For the exhibition “From Nature, with
Nature,” a collection of works by seven
artists has been brought together –
Éléna Salah, Juan Manuel Rodriguez,
Lucile Martinez, Luís Troufa, Maria Lino,
Martinho Costa, and Osias André – to
propose a poetically engaged vision
of the human-nature relationship.

Curadora - Raquel Guerra