By: Guillermo Anselmo Vezzosi
Curator: Indiana Gnocchini
MUMBAT Museum of Fine Arts of Tandil & Museum of Nature and
Science Antonio Serrano of Entre Rios, Argentina

The artist, Guillermo Anselmo Vezzosi, expresses a reflection on his long-standing concern about how our primacies and human values have increasingly distanced us from our true essence, and rethinking our priorities as a society. Our social habits within the last few decades – which have been based around consumption – have had an impact on climate change, on the conservation of the environment, and the necessary care of the environment – individually and collectively.

Artists have explored new perspectives on approaching “creative doing” by using environmental art, by creating awareness through ecological activism. In this sense, Guillermo shows us the huge colossal amounts of waste that we add every day and it is from his own work, in line with the community, that he dedicates his hours collecting from the same environment he inhabits, which he calls Fruits of Progress. He aims to heal the footprint of contemporary man, which at present it seems irreversible.

The Earth’s Fruits is constituted as a scientific research project whose ideology culminates with an installation work of a specific ephemeral site, where the waste that takes on a second life is dignified. The immersive installation invites us to reconsider that we are part of a whole with nature – a complex whole in constant mutation and adaptation. It challenges us to examine our most recondite thoughts, questioning who we are and the links that unite us to our habitat. In this way, it propositions the visitor to act on new imaginaries, creating an illusion of time and place, where he is the protagonist.