Natureza Viva [Living Nature] is a series that takes the still life genre and shifts it into the realm of sensory experience. The compositions are formed by white ceramic sculptures that evoke fruits, containers, and organic elements. In some works, these volumes interact with paintings that depict the same shapes, creating a play between image and object, between representation and presence. Others dispense with the paintings and focus on the direct relationship between matter, form, and space.

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Scent is the central axis of the entire series. Each piece is imbued with a specific aroma, subtly released into the space, yet structuring the experience. The only element that does not emit any scent is always made of brass. Paradoxically, it is the one that names the smell.

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The golden surface of the brass does not shine to decorate, but to signal. It marks the absent center: the scent. Its metallic presence, cold and dense, contrasts with the volatile lightness of the aroma, acting as a sensory anchor. The brass piece holds the fragrance in time and space, fixing what is fluid. It silently translates what lingers in the air, making the invisible perceptible.

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In this way, in Natureza Viva, the act of smelling becomes inseparable from the act of looking. The works call for extended attention, a sensory listening to what is not immediately revealed. What at first appeared to be a still life becomes a living field of relations between scent, form, and memory.