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Patrícia Noronha Da Costa
About
Artist's statement
Patrícia Noronha is a visual artist whose work explores the connection between Art, Science, and Nature. With a background in Microbiology, she investigates the interconnectedness of living organisms through vibrant colors and organic forms. Her artistic practice reflects both her scientific and creative journey, resulting in transformed landscapes—places she does not see but that exist in her imagination. These are fossilized landscapes, marked by time and the traces left by past life forms.
Her "Jardins Suspensos" ("Hanging Gardens") series evokes a world in osmosis, where plants and animals merge into new forms of life. Inspired by botanical, geological, and biological elements, Patrícia reimagines territories where scientific knowledge, memory, and imagination intertwine, creating new visual narratives.
Biography
Patrícia Noronha was born in Lisbon in 1965. She holds a PhD in Biology from ITQB/UNL (2002) and has published several scientific articles in international journals. She received two postdoctoral fellowships from FCT to study the intersection between Art and Science, which resulted in several exhibitions in public and private galleries, such as the Pavilhão do Conhecimento - Ciência Viva and the gardens of the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Her work has also been published in Leonardo (MIT), a journal dedicated to art, science, and technology.
Her recent works explore landscapes transformed by the passage of living beings—mutated gardens where plants and animals intertwine. In some of these landscapes, ghostly birds appear, like aerial fossils, suggesting the persistence of life and time in the memory of the natural world.