Chilean artist Josefa Cordua has always felt connected to nature, which has been a fundamental pillar in her work. She grew up in a family that loved to travel to remote places, reaching the wildest forests of southern Chile and many areas of untouched nature. These adventures have been a constant inspiration for her work. She studied Fine Arts at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, graduated in 2014 and has been a full-time painter ever since.
Her paintings of landscapes and natural elements seek to recreate the introspective and contemplative experience of being surrounded by nature.
She thinks essential to preserve the aesthetics of the slow, to go back to the simple. To value the handmade, the things that take time. To enjoy the process without always being thinking about the result. To give space to silence, to reflection.
Through her work she wants to rescue the experience of being in nature, to inhabit it and connect with its rhythms and cycles. In this artificial world, focused on speed, efficiency and superficiality, the inherent human need to connect with nature, to perceive with all the senses and to be deeply rooted in the present moment, has become more and more evident.