Born in Belém do Pará, Andréa’s journey is inseparable from the forest in all its complexity.
Her canvases capture the essence of wet earth, the humid weight of the air, and the light
filtering through the treetops. There is no idealization in her art—only lived experience. Her
gaze is not that of a visitor but of someone who understands and respects, with affection
and reverence, the land that shaped her. “Everything here inspires me,” she says. And that
truth is visible in every artistic gesture she makes, whether with a brush or a camera lens.
Figurative forms give way to abstraction because, as she knows, the Amazon’s complexity
cannot fit into a single image. Her paintings become a field where the “flow of vibrant colors
and golden sunlight” expresses not what she saw, but the energy she felt. Painting is a
synthesis of light, scent, heat, and sound. For Andréa, abstraction is not an escape; it’s an
aesthetic choice—a way to let forms flow like the rivers that crisscross Pará. A way to let
colors communicate what words fail to describe.
In photography, she found a language to explore both the moment and memory. Using
techniques like double exposure, Andréa constructs images layered with meaning—faith and
daily life intertwined in visual strata. In her work, trees become living walls; flowers sprouting
from mud symbolize resilience; boats serve as veins nourishing a community’s life. Her series
Fragments of Pará is more than a collection of records—it is a visual manifesto revealing
Pará as a place of heightened sensitivity, where nature is a daily force.
Andréa approaches art not as an isolated act but as an ongoing process of knowledge.
What her hands produce is the result of all that her experience absorbs: readings,
experiments, dialogues. Her practice is, therefore, a living organism—like the forest itself. It is
through this process of constant reinvention that her work gains depth, a maturation now
guided by curator Jair Rabindranath Tagore Junior, whose collaboration has helped channel
the artist from pure intuition to a consciously structured language.
In her work, the Amazon is not merely celebrated—it is investigated. Andréa does not depict it
as an exotic paradise but as a living, breathing, ailing, and resilient organism-territory. This
critical approach makes her art essential: by engaging with it, viewers receive not just an
image, but a compelling question that draws them in.
Perhaps, at its core, what Andréa Noronha achieves with her painted and photographed
images is an emotional reconstruction of a territory that insists on surviving. A territory where
time flows on its own terms, where faith takes color, and where art can indeed be a means of
persistence.
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