FLOWERS FROM THE HYPERURANION

FLOWERS FROM THE HYPERURANION presents a poetic and conceptually charged exploration of form, beauty, and immaterial presence in the work of Daria Tommasi.

Rather than treating flowers as simple botanical motifs, the project evokes them as metaphors for transcendence, ideal forms, and the liminal space between sensory perception and thought.

The title references the Hyperuranion, a Platonic idea of a realm of pure, immutable forms beyond the material world. In this context, the depicted “flowers” become imaginaries that gesture toward ideality—suggesting states of being that lie beyond immediate perception yet shape our aesthetic and emotional responses.

Tommasi’s approach unfolds at the intersection of figuration and abstraction. Her use of colour, line, and surface fosters an enigmatic visual language in which motifs seem to hover between representation and evocation. The works invite sustained looking, asking viewers to inhabit a field of aesthetic thought where beauty is both present and elusive.

FLOWERS FROM THE HYPERURANION situates itself within ongoing artistic inquiries into the nature of form, ideality, and the ontological status of images—exploring how art can gesture toward experiences that exceed straightforward description, yet resonate with memory, imagination, and the aesthetic life of the viewer.