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Tivoli Avenida Liberdade presents AWAKENING by Weronika Anna Rosa

April 8, 2026 | by |
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Tivoli Avenida Liberdade presents AWAKENING by Weronika Anna Rosa

AWAKENING is an installation born from the intersection of art, science, and memory, evoking our deep connection to the plant world and its present fragility. Drawing from historical herbariums, field research, and data from the Red List of Threatened Species, artist Weronika Anna Rosa transforms endangered plants into monumental silhouettes, expanded beyond the scale of the human body. Suspended in the lobby and main atrium of Tivoli Avenida Liberdade, these vegetal forms become almost chimerical presence, both delicate and imposing, calling renewed attention to what often goes unnoticed.

Far from being merely a meditation on loss, AWAKENING presents itself as a celebration of life in all its forms, an ode to the persistence of living beings and their capacity for resilience. Within the context of Tivoli Avenida Liberdade, the fabric canvases transform the hotel space into a site of sensory intersection, where visitors are immersed in a garden of shadows and colors, somewhere between the memory of a herbarium and the experience of walking among plants of almost architectural scale.

PROJECT AND MATERIALS

Inspired by the architecture of Tivoli Avenida Liberdade, Weronika Anna Rosa presents the largest-scale work she has created to date, conceived specifically for the mashrabiya: a fabric painting titled Geranium Languinosum (550 x 220 cm), a species classified as “regionally extinct,” no longer found in the wild in Portugal. The enlarged silhouette of this plant rises across a textile with irregular weaves, evoking a once-living presence.

In the hotel’s lobby and main atrium, eight suspended paintings create an immersive path around the species Viola hirta, Epipactis palustris, Berula erecta, Rosa rubiginosa, Vallisneria spiralis, Vicia tetrasperma, Aconitum napellus, and Sagittaria sagittifolia. Arranged at varying heights and in two different sizes (280 x 180 cm and 220 x 130 cm), they form a floating garden of vegetal contours, whose density can be adjusted according to the dynamics of the space.

At the entrance to the lobby, an oak wood structure (130 x 220 x 20 cm) incorporates two fabric paintings that filter light and extend the logic of transparency between forms, acting as a threshold between the street and the main exhibition space.

 

 

Tivoli Avenida Liberdade
Av. da Liberdade, 185, Lisboa

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