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.
Winter micro-seasons
In winter ‘Visual Strolls’ at Foresta becomes a space alive with diverse encounters. In the spirit of the entangled pluriversal visions, we invite artists to share seasonal moments they observe and experience across geographies. We are also inspired by the Japanese culture where the understanding of seasons stretches beyond the four times of the year with varying temperature and length of daylight: there are 72 micro-seasons, 72 kō, 72 poetic moments of the year closely observed as things change in the living world around. This winter at Foresta 5 artists from different parts of the globe are sharing their visions of the season.
Winter 2020/2021 Portrait: The first day of snow
By
Kasya Denisevich
Kasya is an author, illustrator and graphic artist, living between Moscow and Barcelona, with seasonal rhythms. Kasya’s work is inspired by winter days, moments of connection, and worlds of possibilities.
“I’ve always been living in cities. Maybe that is why I love it when nature or call it weather takes over urban life. Heavy rains, winds, snowstorms can be dangerous but also give you the feeling that most things in life are still bigger than us. When the snow starts to fall it softens every sound and the world becomes silent. Then as it makes colours fade, comes chromatic silence. And if you happen to be outside in a snowstorm you almost don’t see anything but snow, you’re in a sudden and beautiful solitude. And it feels like in the middle of your busy life you get transported to some special place, where there’s no time and you don’t have an age.”
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: Kasya Denisevich