Alejandro Pasquale

In Naturaleza exterior, Alejandro Pasquale unfolds a visual universe where the human figure dissolves into vegetal morphology, giving rise to an expanded body that blooms, breathes, and branches out. This series, composed of silent and intensely symbolic portraits, proposes a poetic reading of the human being as an inseparable part of the natural environment. Through an exuberant botanical iconography —branches, flowers, fungi, and ferns that sprout from masked faces— the artist elaborates a metaphor of communion and belonging. The faces, often hidden or dissolved in vegetation, interpelate the viewer from an introspective stillness, as if identity were retracting to make way for a broader ecological consciousness. The series functions as a visual call to reconnect with the earth, a sensitive evocation that denounces, without words, the contemporary fracture between being and habitat.

15 works in the series

Naturaleza Interior introduces us to a more intimate territory, where nature no longer envelops the body but is born from within it. Pasquale here proposes an exploration of the mental and emotional landscape, drawing a cartography of the soul traversed by roots, vegetal constellations, and organic symbolisms. The figures, suspended in dreamlike atmospheres and soft tones, seem surrendered to a form of silent meditation. Their masked or absent faces invite reflection on identity, memory, and spirituality. Nature, in this context, is not environment but vital energy: it emerges as a generative force, as a symbiotic process between the psychic and the vegetal. This series configures a kind of contemporary visual mysticism, where introspection manifests in images of contained, almost ritualistic beauty. Pasquale suggests that inhabiting the world begins with cultivating our inner garden.

5 works in the series