Strangeness
Vitória Taborda

Strangeness presents Vitória Taborda's research through works that reorganize natural elements such as leaves, seeds, insects, and botanical fragments, creating compositions that suspend the automatic nature of perception. Drawing from the concept of defamiliarization, the exhibition reflects on art's capacity to make the familiar visible again, revealing the complexity that habit often renders invisible.

Situated in the Tijuca National Park, within the Atlantic Forest, the exhibition establishes a direct relationship with its surroundings. The works operate at the threshold between nature and artifice, recalling the historical coexistence of naturalia and artificialia in cabinets of curiosities while questioning the modern separation between nature and culture. Rather than transforming these elements into something else, the exhibition creates the conditions for them to appear once again in their singularity, asking us to look beyond recognition and rediscover the strangeness of the world.