Healing the Tree brings together a new series of works by Sandra Vásquez de la Horra created in 2026, primarily in pencil and watercolor on paper.
Rooted in the artist’s long-standing exploration of humanity’s connection to nature, the exhibition expands on ideas Vásquez de la Horra first articulated in her Botánica de la Evolución (“Botanics of Evolution”), a body of work conceived as a scientific atlas of the development of the species. “We come from the trees,” the artist writes, “and every soul is a seed.”
Balancing delicacy with emotional intensity, her haunting figures and dreamlike scenes move between mythology, personal memory, and collective histories. Veins resemble roots, bodies merge with branches, and inner worlds mirror cosmic forms, suggesting what the artist describes as a profound unity between humanity and nature, between the microcosm and the macrocosm.
Layered with wax, the works possess a distinctive material softness that contrasts with the psychological depth of their imagery, inviting viewers into a world that is at once intimate, unsettling, and deeply human.
“There will come a time when,” Vásquez de la Horra writes, “humanity understands that we are not separate. We are one.”
