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 the natural world 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, as apples ripen — at the turn of seasonal moments we invite different artists to bring a new time of the year to Foresta by making a seasonal portrait of time, that later becomes part of the permanent Museum of Seasons.
Autumn Artist in Residence 2024
Marina Marcolin
Marina is an illustrator and painter. She collaborates with publishers and art galleries all around the world. Her artistic research leads her to explore, with different tools and techniques, the world and its invisible traces, encounters, silences and imaginery.
Autumn Portrait 2024
“There is an imperfect and mysterious gap, a space, a void that remains pending moments before placing the pencil on the paper, or inking an engraved plate, or developing the photographic film; these are tools that I feel are similar to myself, because they coexist with the error and the being among vulnerable things. A collection of fragments that are found between living and imaging, they are the traces that I encounter even when it seems there is nothing.
What links the images in this collection is not a logical thread but that of a tightrope walker, a thread that I walk in my daily life in the company of the great emptiness that is underneath.”
“You can lie on a bridge and watch the water flowing past. Or run, or wade through a swamp in your red boots. Or roll yourself up and listen to the rain falling on the roof. It’s very easy to enjoy yourself. “
“The forest was heavy with rain and the trees were absolutely motionless. Everything had withered and died, but right down on the ground the late autumn’s secret garden was growing with great vigour straight out of the mouldering earth, a strange vegetation of shiny puffed-up plants that had nothing at all to do with summer.”
— Tove Jansson
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: Marina Marcolin