Fábula Natura: Fantastic Ceramic Works by Paulina Palacios

Palacios’s New work proposes an intimate approach to nature through a personal reinterpretation of the natural world. Her practice seeks to recreate the overflowing exuberance of the tropics through an evocative imaginary, constructing a universe in which the organic ceases to be a passive subject or mere visual reference and instead occupies an active, narrative territory from which it can generate its own fiction.

The relationship between her training as an anthropologist and her artistic practice is fundamental. Her work within the Amazonian territories and their lush ecosystems permeates her work with exotic creatures and forms, building a personal vision of an imagined tropical realm. Echoing the legacy of nineteenth-century botanical travelers and explorers, Fábula Natura emerges as a body of work that proposes a speculative taxonomy: a symbolic archive or personal register in which anemones, leaves, flowers, bulbs, petals, roots, trunks, minerals, and other living entities coexist. This proposal invites us to reconsider the boundaries between the organic and the fantastic, offering a poetic reading of the natural world.

Formally, Palacios’s work resonates with the Arts and Crafts movement and the aesthetics of Art Nouveau, both of which sought to integrate beauty and nature into everyday life. Her luminous bodies—sculptural lamps—compose an iconographic repertoire inspired by vegetal, marine, and mineral motifs. This universe is materialized through a handcrafted process that combines ceramics and glass. The ductility of clay, together with recovered Murano and Opalina glass, introduces notions of recycling, transformation, and metamorphosis, reinforcing the narrative depth of the works.These pieces function as hybrid objects, situated between sculpture and utility, where aesthetic presence and functional purpose coexist.

Fábula Natura is thus a quest that articulates memory, territory, and transformation: an imaginary archive that reveals a distinctive language, capable of telling stories through its forms and materials, and of proposing new narratives that transcend mimesis.

Her lamp collection is a fantastic vision of nature with works like Torres Herbarias, Victoria Spigus,Herbal Twins, Ostreoum, Gorgoneion and Anémona Capilita amigos others reflect the different natural kindoms and are just poetry to the eyes!

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