The exhibition Limbo arises from an investigation around the historical herbariums that comprise the estate of the Carlos Machado Museum. The end-of-the-century imagery that characterizes the archivist logic and the environment of these places serves as an engine for the work developed, which is based on a reflection on the key moments of the study of Botany and the expansion of Natural History. In the scope of this research, the exhibition relates to the field of Synecology, analyzing the behaviours of the biological communities, or the relations between the individuals that integrate different species and the environment in which they live. Therefore, based on the sociological hierarchy of plants and the knowledge of Lineu Taxonomy, the intervention problematizes the concept of endemic, translated into the composition of an artistic object that rehearses another relationship between the elements. The intervention crosses the scientific research with the expression of the principles inherent to the painting, operating on a logic of strata that inform the visual universe of the artist. The object constructs an environment where one rehearses the re-creation of a study landscape, where the images recorded on the transparent plates are reproductions of scientific illustrations. These images appear in a sequence of layers that respects the importance of species and the harmony of the whole. On the other hand, the insertion of taxidermied animals introduces volume, colour and texture to the composition, disturbing the rigour of a schematic reading. The interaction with a careful lighting system, which projects the shadow and dimension of the figures, expands the composition to a space field, of scenic value. The intervention starts with careful attention to the subtlety and fragility of each element but, on the whole, it works an overlap of orders that simultaneously respect and subvert the linearity of a classification system. Working on the expression that the elements regain, the creation of this new landscape, manipulated, builds an ambience that researches the linearity of scientific thought and its classification system. Limbo thus refers to the space that exists between the exuberance of existence and scientific rationalization. Space that the artistic field approaches, expands and speculates.