Statement

Johanna Arenas has developed a creative process based on her interest in the changes, transformations and mutations that take place in nature. Her overall observations of nature are recorded in notes, graphics, patterns and statistics that are later converted to drawings, impressions or alterations of surfaces. The resulting artwork is often presented using laser, video or sound as an installation for a specific space. Arenas’s works are created to immerse the viewer in environments that encourage dialogue on the fragile ecosystem that we and other species inhabit.

The associations that Arenas extracts from nature have their origin in events that are invisible to the human eye. Yet these hidden actions of nature have links to behaviors that are reproduced in daily human life. By observing the routines of living organisms and by noting the patterns and structures of movement and space, the artist has been able to create original associative images.