About the Artwork

Inner Landscapes explores the invisible worlds people carry within them — the emotions, memories, and experiences that quietly shape who we are. In this series, Adriana Silva paints figures that move between the visible and the unseen, suggesting that identity is formed not only by what we show to the world, but also by what grows within us over time.

Rather than focusing on physical likeness alone, Silva approaches the human figure as a place where inner life can take form. Flowers, fruit, color, and references to time appear throughout the compositions as part of a symbolic language that reflects growth, vulnerability, and change. These elements expand from the figures themselves, suggesting that experience accumulates and becomes part of our structure.

Inspired by Symbolist art and by organic systems found in nature, Silva treats each painting as a living environment. The body and the surrounding space often merge, creating compositions where the figure feels less like a portrait and more like a landscape shaped by memory and emotion.

A central influence in the series is the structure of coral reefs — complex ecosystems formed slowly through layers of connection and interdependence. In a similar way, the paintings reflect how identity develops through time, relationships, and lived experience.

Through these works, Inner Landscapes invites viewers to reflect on their own interior worlds and the quiet ways life continues to shape us beneath the surface.