Exhibition
Opening "Future Taphonomies: Creatures of Biophilia"
18 May 2023 – 1 Jun 2023
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 13:00 – 19:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Taphonomy is the science that attempts to explain all the events that affected the remains of an organism from the time it died until its fossils are found.
of an organism from the time it died until its fossils are found.
About
From a rereading of this science, the exhibition "Future Taphonomies: Creatures of Biophilia" questions the different events questions the different events that threaten the natural kingdom in the Latin American territory Latin American territory: the damage caused by trawling in marine ecosystems, the impact of deforestation of impact of rainforest deforestation on plant species and the acidification of the ocean, which is reducing acidification of the ocean, which reduces the compounds needed by its organisms, such as crabs, urchins, sea urchins such as crabs, sea urchins, lobsters and corals to regenerate their shells and exoskeletons.
Nature is under constant aggression, the effects of urbanisation, industrial livestock farming, logging and industrial livestock farming, forest clearance and CO2 emissions, among other actions, are accelerating the loss of biodiversity, accelerate the loss of biodiversity on planet earth.
Seven works make up this exhibition and each one of the series presents us with a natural
series presents us with a probable natural realm, revealing a moment of fragility of diverse species, shifting the boundary between fragility of various species, shifting the boundary between life and death.
The exhibition forms a possible archaeological residue provoked by a present that has been invaded and deteriorated by the hand of humanity, showing a dystopian future, in what could be the state after the what could be the state after the extinction of these kingdoms
