Evgenia Emets, submitted artwork
Evgenia Emets
Video, Film, Installation, Performance
Portugal
Evgenia Emets, a Fine Arts graduate from Saint Martin's, artist and poet, and the Founder of Eternal Forest Global, who explores environmental and ecological themes in her work. She uses calligraphy, visual poetry, installation, performance, and site-specific art in nature to express these ideas. Eternal Forest is a multidisciplinary art project creating 1,000 forest sanctuaries to be protected for 1,000 years by local communities as forest guardians. Founded by artist Evgenia Emets, Eternal Forest is growing into a global organisation in collaboration with artists, scientists, cultural agents, tree-planting organisations, and land partners. Eternal Forest has been exhibited in Portugal and internationally: Arsenal, New York City, Hall of Biodiversity, Porto, Estufa Fria and Monsanto Forest Park, Lisbon, National Museum of Natural History and Science and Botanical Garden, Lisbon among others. https://www.evgeniaemets.vision/ & www.eternalforest.earth
Works
Evgenia Emets, submitted artwork
I am a visual artist and poet working at the intersection of ecology, language, and collective memory. My practice explores how we relate to land through ritual, storytelling, and co-creation with place. I work across visual calligraphy, installations, films, artist books, and site-specific ecological artworks that engage directly with forests, seeds, soil, and the cyclical nature of time. Since 2018, my central focus has been Eternal Forest — a long-term art and ecology project creating an interconnected network of forest sanctuaries to be protected for 1,000 years by local communities. It is both a conceptual framework and a grounded practice, evolving through research, land-based work, and creative collaboration with scientists, local and traditional knowledge holders, and forest ecosystems. I approach each place through the practice of deep listening — spending extended time walking, observing, and gathering stories of the land and people. This embodied research informs my studio process, where poetry and visual language merge into works that echo the rhythms of nature. In my calligraphic practice, text often dissolves into organic forms, revealing the interconnectedness of language and landscape.
