Known for her precision — perhaps an echo of her background in
dentistry — Adriana doesn’t impose order on nature; she respects it.
If Versailles, with its meticulously planned gardens, inspired her
series European Flowers, the forest taught her that there’s a more
powerful beauty in the spontaneity of the natural world. “Versailles
inspires me with its discipline and rigor, but the Amazon rainforest
inspires me with its freedom and life force,” she reflects. Her
sensitive, poetic art proves with every brushstroke that “art can
dwell both in perfect symmetry and in the lyrical, one-of-a-kind
asymmetry of the wild.”
In her work, the Amazon is not some distant concept — it’s an
emotional territory. It is land, memory, reverence, and perhaps, a
quiet warning. Adriana Soares transforms inner landscapes into
visual ones. As she revisits Salgado and pays tribute to Indigenous
femininity, she also revisits her own story, her origin, her mission.
Between metallic hues and subtle transparencies, between Marie
Antoinette and Maria Florentina, between French gardens and
tropical forests, she builds a delicate bridge between seemingly
opposing worlds.
And so, her art doesn’t simply occupy space. Like the Amazon itself,
it transforms it.
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