Lurdi Blauth

And the tree is the being of the great rhythm, the true being of the annual rhythm. (Bachelard, 1990)

Lurdi Blauth is a Brazilian visual artist, producing in the area of printmaking, artist’s book, installation, alternative and less toxic media, addressing the concepts of matrix, image, repetition, print, multiple.

In her recent poetic production, various elements are present, such as trees, grasses, weeds, and different types of plants, which are given new meaning through the artist´s creative process and distinct graphic means. Investigations in the field of printmaking encompass procedures involving the concepts of matrix, image, repetition, printing, reproduction, and multiple, using digital photography to capture images and procedures that involve printmaking as printmaking, printmaking/object, and installations.

Trees (nature) have been a subject emphasized mainly for their ecological importance, vital for the existence of all living beings. On the other hand, they enchant with the immense richness of their forms, their cyclical states, always in movement and transformation. These are questions related to time/space, ephemeral/permanent. Time/ephemeral, in constant change, and space/permanent, in constant movement and transformation.

ARTIST STATEMENT

In recent productions, the series I call Porous Landscapes emerges, reflecting on the hybrid interactions of images and the possibilities of configuring other intersections in my graphic production. The work proposes distinct rhythms and movements in which marks and graphic elements are emphasized, revealing the presence of the temporality of a slower and more cyclical gesture, and areas where the landscape is captured in its porous permeability.

The concept of porosity dialogues with my urban displacements, whose surfaces of the city and nature suggest the presence of an unstable landscape and marks of time, whose layers are absorbed into my artistic practice. In this sense, I position myself as an artist in a porous state, open to re-signifying and activating other perspectives of poetic thinking and doing.