Shape, Sound and Scent:
Botanical art installation and suspended paintings on textile
Weronika Anna Rosa creates art installations and suspended textile paintings that weave together art and science, evoking our deep-rooted connection with the natural world. First presented at the Ethical Assembly 2024, the works were subsequently shown at the National Museum of Natural History and Science in Lisbon in 2025, in collaboration with perfumer Michael Nordstrand, at Tivoli Avenida da Liberdade and at the Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian (shop) in 2026.
Drawing inspiration from historic herbaria, field research, and data from the Red List of Threatened Species (IUCN), they explore the ways in which scientific knowledge, sensory experience, and artistic practice can intersect.
Weronika Anna Rosa uses organic cotton, linen, and silk, materials that filter light and enhance the interplay of transparency between forms and their surroundings. She translates flora species at risk of extinction into monumental silhouettes, amplified beyond the scale of the human body. A monochromatic, organic palette of nuanced shades evokes the visual language of herbaria. These canvases transform space into a place of sensory intersection, where those who pass through are enveloped by a garden of shadows and colours - somewhere between the memory of an herbarium and the physical experience of walking among plants of almost architectural scale. These plant figures become chimerical presences, at once delicate and striking, inviting renewed attention to what usually goes unnoticed.