I. The Cloud and the Root
Imprint of an Encenillo Tree (Weinmannia tomentosa). The algorithm provides deforestation data, the artist inscribes resistance. A forensic archive of the territory to safeguard the landscape.
"When we see on paper the last expression of the tree being felled, we have a reaction similar to recognizing our own death in the plaster death mask of a friend."
II. Testimony
III. The Expression of Drawing
"The Cartography of the Pulse: From the violated forest to the emptiness of the paper, the hand seeks to recompose what the saw took away. Before the matrix withstands the pressure of the printing press, drawing acts as the first seed of resistance. It is the human pulse tracing the topography of memory."
"He returns us to the origins of printmaking in nature, printing with raw wood, thus proposing a new visual language that is more diaphoric (transferential) than metaphoric."
IV. The Rigor of the Matrix
"The matrix is the imprint left by the felling of the tree."
"These works do not imitate nature. They use it to develop a subtle fabric of plastic forms, which Osorio works with as much care as pleasure, with such delicacy that, having emerged from nature, they settle into art with the seal of timelessness and poetry."
V. The Imprint of Movement
VI. Written Territory
"For more than five decades, Jaime Osorio has developed one of the most sustained artistic inquiries in Colombian printmaking."
Between the anatomical exploration of the late twentieth century and his current ecological activism, Osorio's work underwent a silent and profound transition. The human body ceased to be the center of the plate to yield its centrality to the body of the earth.
In an era marked by the accelerated loss of ecosystems, his matrices and prints assume an unprecedented documentary dimension. They do not merely record natural forms; they preserve material evidence of a relationship between humanity and nature that is increasingly under threat.
More than a retrospective, this archive is a living space for research, memory, and cultural stewardship.