Brooklyn. Invisible Landscapes reflects on the rainforest

After an intensive experience in the Amazon, seven artists show their works that connect science, nature and environmental issues.

At the Stand4 Gallery in Brooklyn, “Invisible Landscape” features the artists of the LABVerde Art Immersion Program in the Amazon in Manaus, Brazil. The program promotes an intensive experience in the rainforest to explore the connection between science, art and the natural environment. This leads to artistic creation through a constructive debate about environmental issues generated by both theory and life experiences in nature.

Img.1 Daniel Kukla‚ A Disturbance‚ 2018. Photo Daniel Kukla
Img.2 From left to right: Tatiana Arocha‚ Mi Selva‚ 2018; Bia Monteiro, Re-measuring the Dry Land‚ 2018. Photo Daniel Kukla
Img.3 From left to right: Bianca Lee Vasquez‚ Era da Floresta‚ 2017; Bia Monteiro, Tucum, 2018. Photo Daniel Kukla
Img.4 From left to right: Tatiana Arocha‚ El Oro Negro‚ 2018; Lisa Schonberg‚ Music for percussion‚ 2018; Bia Monteiro‚ Study for Re-measuring the Dry Land‚ 2018. Photo Daniel Kukla
Img.5 Lucy Helton, Video Mapping of Flooded Tree Root. Photo Daniel Kukla

While many countries drive their economies from Amazon resources, the realization of this value is synonymous with its destruction through deforestation for cattle ranching and the soy monoculture. The perennial value of the Amazon, therefore, is politically and economically invisible. The artwork on show explores the mythos of the Amazon and reflects on the various “ways of knowing” that can arise from first-hand experience.

Tatiana Arocha‚ El Oro Negro, 2018. Photo Daniel Kukla

The artists employ various strategies to understand their experience and relationships to the forest; observational aesthetics, embodied knowledge, archiving and cataloging, speculative visioning, and personal dialog. These objects and experiences may be interpreted as documents, narratives, or relics, each unveiling a hidden way of valuing of this world resource. On show are the works of Tatiana Arocha, Michael Clemow, Lucy Helton, Daniel Kukla, Bianca Lee Vasquez, Bia Monteiro and Lisa Schonberg. Opening image: Bia Monteiro, Tucumá, 2018. Archival pigment print, 30 x 40 inches. Courtesy the artist.

  • Invisible Landscape
  • Stand4 Gallery
  • until 31 May 2018
  • 414, 78 St., Brooklyn, NY