Eubalaena Australis

This artwork, along with others that make up the series, are part of the project "The Earth´s fruits", through which the Artist goes to Nature to obtain the fruits that abound in it today. Comparing, through it, the differences between past and present, natives and conquerors, natural and created by man.

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Reused aluminum textil from beverage cans.
1.40mx 1.80mx 0.30. 2021.

Work selected and exhibited in the Manuel Belgrano National Contest of the Sívori Museum in Buenos Aires.

Ancestrally, Nature provided the fruits through which the native peoples wove their history. Through them they spoke of the living history that abounded in their presence.

Today, in Nature, the remains of human consumption live in abundance through which I seek to weave together the vestige of the beings that will disappear as an indirect consequence of our actions.

The reused aluminum from waste beverage cans with which this work has been made is characterized by being a product of the Anthropocene, which was collected directly from the environment to be used through an artisanal process that attempts to imitate aboriginal weaving. By imitating an ancient art, this work alludes to the memory of time by comparing past and future in the present, marking the contrast between two completely opposite times and generations: Native defenders of the natural against the Foreigner who destroyed what existed. This addresses the relationship between opposite poles (Natural/Man-made, Native/Exotic), thus reflecting what will be the result of our civilization: the Anthropocene, an inevitable destiny that will mark the passage of our civilization on Earth.

The technique used is simple, unlike the native one it imitates, a reflection of the rationalist and simplifying system of our civilization.

By evoking the shape of a Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena Australis, declared in danger of extinction due to indiscriminate hunting) I wish to honor, through this sculpture, its presence that is in danger every day as a consequence of the civilizational progress that characterizes us and I seek compare, through this gesture, the emotion that the ancestors felt when seeing them alive and in fullness, with the emotion of our civilization that every time we see them cannot help but think about the fragility of their presence and their dangerous disappearance, inviting through this to think that it is necessary to look back, to be able to find in the native people of these lands, the answers to build together a future in peace, harmony and prosperity.