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.
Summer 2021 Artist in Residence
Victoria Semykina
Victoria is an illustrator and book maker based in Bologna. Long summer days full of explorations, smells, sounds, spells, and conversations with flowers are here - scroll down for a selection of Victoria’s playful work with mystical sensibilities.
Summer 2021 Portrait
“Waking up to the sound of a fly, counting specks of dust in a beam of light, listening to my grandma talking to flowers in the garden…
Time seems endless, and every day is a long exploration; full of smells, sounds, puzzles, and spells.
Searching everywhere for treasures, from the garden to the suitcases under the bed. Mesmerised by my grandma’s photos, postcards and flowers, fallen out of an old picture book.
...grandma is no more, nor the house with the garden. Yet every summer, I keep trying to live each day like one hour from my childhood.”
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: Victoria Semykina