Visual Strolls
seasonal residency
Visual Strolls is a residency space for artists who share an affinity for landscapes and wilderness, inner and outer. Foresta is changing with every season as the real forest does. In cyclical circularity it celebrates changing seasons of nature and of our lives. As snow melts away, as days grow longer, as leaves change colour, as they fly with the wind, as stillness settles in, as warmth returns, as birds cross continents — at the turn of each seasonal moment we invite a different artist to bring a new time of the year to Foresta by creating a portrait of time that later becomes part of the permanent Museum of Seasons.
Autumn 2023 Artist in Residence
Julia Tudisco
Julia is a half-Hungarian, half-Italian animation filmmaker and illustrator, currently based in Budapest. She draws inspiration mainly from the intuitive sketches in her sketchbook, created in nature. Posthumanism and feminism are often themes in her works. She loves folk art, folktales, mythological stories from different cultures, naive art, and especially admires how children can draw. She is a fan of any artwork that feels pure and honest.
Autumn 2023 Portrait
“I’ve always been drawn to folktales. In Hungarian tales, the protagonist often searches for the middle of the forest. As a child, I believed this ‘middle’ held the forest’s magic. I grew up in a village surrounded by a forest that felt infinite to me. With my two brothers, we tirelessly explored, drawing maps in our quest to find the forest’s magical center. Even today, I can still feel the magic of the ‘middle’ of the forest, where I can find inner peace and create drawings in my sketchbook, to organize the chaos in my head. ”
About Visual Strolls
Visual Strolls is not only an online gallery, an exhibition room, a portrait into the work of the invited artist. It is also a part of our long-term research, understanding arts and creativity as forces that change human states of attention in manifold ways, as forms of cognition and perception, divergent perspectives and poetry of vision, access to intuition and imagination, and empowerment for conscious creation of culture. You can read more about Art into Life research here.
Cover image: Juli Tudisco