For multidisciplinary artist Patrícia Siqueira, painting begins long before the brush
touches the canvas. It’s born in the memory of the body, in the impulse of a leap, in
the tension of a muscle — and then becomes a gesture that draws in the air. Her art
is not a static image but the trace of an inner choreography, a clash of strength and
resilience that takes form in color and shape. When she turns to the Amazon, she
isn’t trying to depict the forest — she’s composing with it.
Patrícia’s gesture expands like a river searching for its banks. Like water, her lines
follow invisible currents, skirt obstacles, split and reunite. The surface — canvas or
paper — becomes the forest floor, where bodies stretch out and reform. In her work,
the three forces of the Amazon — abundance, fragility, and resistance — are not just
subjects; they are partners in composition. Abundance reveals itself in layers of
vibrant paint and paper; fragility shows in the torn edges, “like a leaf bending with
the wind”; and resistance pulses in the returning gesture, in color that refuses to be
erased.
Her connection with the natural world is both visceral and methodical. As in the
forest, there is no single protagonist in her paintings. There is a collective body
where “what moves and what causes movement blend into each other.” “The tree is
not just a presence — it is an instrument for the wind, shade for the ground, a home
for insects. Action isn’t centralized. It’s diffuse, it’s collective.” Her works are porous,
open, permeable to forces that cannot be controlled. They accept what appears as
part of the work itself — like dance, where the body allows itself to be crossed by the
flight of an insect, the breath of wind, or the rush of water.