Drawing cabinet. Literate Azorín, 33
The relationship between humans and the natural environment is a constant in the work ofErnesto Casero. The artist says that we have a word to designate what is not human, nature, as if we were in another place, a place from which we can take, manipulate and exploit to our liking what surrounds us". Plants, adds, they are becoming extinct at a rate five times higher than that of animals, but since they don't make much noise we don't pay much attention to them. Casero wants to focus on our essential neighbors in the exhibition The lost plants, where they appear collected 163 plants that have disappeared due to human action on the ecosystem and ghostly drawings of some of them based on images of the dry specimens preserved in various herbaria. On the opposite wall, the phrase "pay attention motherfuckers" made of moss exhorts us to be careful if we don't want the human species to be the next to die out. With this sample, Drawing Cabinet tanca una chlorophyllic trilogy that started the exhibitions of Nieves Torralba and Felipe Ortega Regalado where the plant world is a source of inspiration and reason for reflection. AU
