The Invisible Side of Nature

The Invisible Side of Nature is a one-day workshop dedicated to reflection and co-creation in nature, inviting participants to slow down and resynchronize their perception with the places we inhabit. It approaches landscape not as a backdrop, but as a living field of relationships — between body and environment, memory and matter, perception and imagination.

The workshop unfolds through an interdisciplinary dialogue between art and philosophy, activating concepts such as resonance, embodied experience, the poetics of space, and the reinvention of landscape through lived experience. Through walking, observation, gathering, co-creation, and conversations with the surrounding environment of the ORTO Creative Hub, these ideas are explored artistically through collective and experimental practices.

The workshop is led by artist Sally Santiago, whose artistic and research practice focuses on the relationship between human presence and the surrounding world, with particular attention to nature and rural territories. Through the exploration of processes of perception, memory, and temporality, her work investigates how lived experience shapes sensitive relations of resonance between body, landscape, and living beings. Sally Santiago is a PhD candidate in Fine Arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto and develops her artistic practice across video, photography, installation, and textile practices.

AUDIENCE
Individuals interested in nature, artistic exploration, and creative thinking.