Abstract
DOI: http://doi.org/10.26333/sts.xxxviii1.08
Inspired in Joana Vasconcelos’ artwork called Garden of Eden, this paper discusses the sociosemiotics relationship between “nature” and art. In turn, the notions of garden and landscape are also considered as fundamental in order to understand the meaning-making process of our contemporary sensitive experience. In fact, the technological conditions of individual and social perception of the surrounding phenomenological world produce a continuous resignification of our embodied imaginary.
What does “nature” (or natures) nowadays mean? In what way the garden, as an artefact, represents a cultural paradigm of our (non)human nature? The very notion of landscape, permanently re-created by visual artists, can be useful to problematize our connection to the other living beings, rather animals or plants, in a planet at serious risk or, at least, subject to an irreparable transformation.
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