Over the past generations, artists from vastly different cultures have asked themselves how to work with the earth at a time when it most needs care and restoration—how to offer gratitude and pay tribute, and how to learn from what it offers when it seems to be stripped of its biological, mineral, organic, and chemical richness.
Rooted in the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao's Environmental Sustainability Strategic Framework, the exhibition brings together works from 1970 to the present and includes sculptures, installations, drawings, and performances, along with an extensive selection of archival materials.
Beyond offering a new, diverse, and multidisciplinary map of artistic expression, it also seeks to present an inventory of tools, possibilities, and futures through an itinerary that connects artifacts made of earth, wood, leaves, roots, and plants—ancestral materials that have once again gained renewed relevance today.
