Ernesto Casero
Plantas perdidas, 2024
Acrylics over cement
500 x 1250 cm
Chemical Waste Building, Universitat de València Burjassot Campus
Picture by: Eduardo Alapont
This work is part of the project "Universitat de València's values: Art and heritage over the campus"
Plantas perdidas is a monochromatic mural intervention evoking extinct vegetal species using silhouettes and botanical names painted over cement. Biodiversity loss of plants is becoming worse than that of animals: its pace is twice faster than the extinction of amphibians, mammals and birds combined. As an ecosystem’s base, plants are in an alarming process of extinction and this mural aims to make this fact noticeable as well as paying tribute to the already lost. The mural was made by using the dried samples of these plants in a botanical book as reference for the silhouettes that make up the mural.
Our (barely) quiet fellows, the vegetal species, communicate in a myriad of forms: chemical and even visual signs, spreading all over the globe (except the Antartica) and bonding with fungi, microorganisms, arthropods, fish, amphibians, birds, mammals and insects in a food, information and refuge exchange network. They stablish relations of cooperation and symbiosis and develop defence mechanisms and compete for resources. Yet these methods might need verbal and audiovisual translation for humans to understand them properly. The mural aims to become a short step towards this comprehension of the current situation of our and the vegetal species’ situation, to show respect and admiration for these begone plants that once shared the planet with us.
Ernesto Casero
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