In LA HOJARASCA, Elsa Leydier explores our paradoxical relationship with nature, caught between fascination and destruction. She works directly on tropical leaves (palm trees, banana plants, etc.), chosen for their strong symbolic weight in the Western imagination, coating them with paint. Once painted, the plants suffocate and become frozen, transitioning from living elements into fragile sculptures.

This process reveals the "exoticizing" filters through which we perceive nature, and questions the contradiction inherent in our modes of preservation — which transform and museify the very environment we claim to protect.