Alfredo Ceibal’s third solo show in Miami. The exhibition combines a series of site-specific ephemeral wall drawings, mixed media on wood, and drawings on different supports. The artist raises the idea

of creating small worlds in the form of asteroids where microcosms exist in alternate universes.

With JARDINES DE OTROS MUNDOS (Gardens of Other Worlds), the artist, through the works and their arrangement in space, invites the viewer to slow down and observe, mindful of details and awakening the need to take consciousness of what is ecologically at stake in our times.

In human memory, illusory images of ideal and distant places to be inhabited are persistent, where humanity would travel to save the species, leaving the Earth forever towards the spacious confines of infinity. These environments exist and are fantastic and idyllic, or they are just the opposite. What is certain is that if those ideas persist in our memory, perhaps they exist physically throughout space. If they live in the imagination and mind, they also exist in parallel universes.

On the other hand, in the imagery of Jardines de Otros Mundos, impossible paradises are evoked, thriving on asteroids and floating worlds full of rivers, mountains, ravines, lakes and jungles. Since in these distant regions, land is abundant for every being that wishes to possess it. They are dimensions where each world has been patiently woven by nature's persistent and silent tenacity to repeat life throughout the universe.

But why would a human want to find a habitable paradise in the infinite distance if he already has it here and now?

For many years, I have observed the advances and environmental changes transforming the Earth's landscape into uninhabitable deserts and sleepwalking islands of plastic garbage floating adrift on dispossessed oceans. Over time, I have fully understood that the excessive exploitation and abuse of natural resources, overpopulation, excessive consumption and pollution, added to human arrogance and indifference, are legitimate reasons to seek and find other worlds. in the corners of a remote and implacable cosmos.

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Since the Revolution began or even before, paradoxically, humanity has found itself in a direct and active battle against nature, making its existence and prosperity impossible. It being so, we should not doubt that the human race could end up as losers and extinct in this aggressive and senseless duel. Its disappearance will be guaranteed by not harmonizing with the colossal natural forces, which must always impose and maintain a natural balance in this world and everything that exists, even if it has to be erased and remade.

On the other hand, in parallel with the disastrous events in progress, we have already achieved the impossible: accepting that the world is rapidly degrading and dissolving in our hands, we are already experiencing it.

Now comes the most challenging part: convincing and instructing its inhabitants that it is imperative to regenerate the soils and seas of this Earth to one day recover them and enjoy them again.

Alfredo Ceibal