Maura Biava approaches her exhibition Nature * Patterns in a collaborative, sustainable and inclusive way. This show revolves around the ideas of information and hidden geometries behind what we see in nature at first glance. According to Biava, this shift of attention from admiration to investigation will enable us to understand why things are formed and developed as they are. The antiquated position of a human being as a neutral observer, or at best an appreciator of nature, has run its course. Because we believed in this old-fashioned point of view, we became detached from the natural systems that we now know we are part of.
Maura Biava — an Italian, Amsterdam-based artist — is intrigued by how the regular forms of the organic world originate according to specific mathematic rules. In her artistic practice, Biava aims to create works that follow the same principles. “The interaction between information, matter, and energy informs and shapes what we see, it forms our reality,” says Maura Biava. To show this interaction in her work, she uses clay as matter, mathematics and numbers as information, and her actions and hands at work as energy.