Jaime Miranda-Bambarén Peruvian, b. 1982
Moon 2, 2022
Sculpted Eucalyptus root
Approximately 4900 kg
Approximately 4900 kg
196 x 227 x 227 cm
77 1/8 x 89 3/8 x 89 3/8 in
77 1/8 x 89 3/8 x 89 3/8 in
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Jaime Miranda-Bambarén exhumes the truncated roots of plundered trees in the Peruvian highlands. These are centennial eucalyptus, planted in viceregal times, razed by our degrading 'modernity'. By transforming such remains...
Jaime Miranda-Bambarén exhumes the truncated roots of plundered trees in the Peruvian highlands. These are centennial eucalyptus, planted in viceregal times, razed by our degrading "modernity".
By transforming such remains into Seeds, Miranda-Bambarén affirms, to be sure, an ecological claim. But above all, he projects a metaphysical vision, a resurrectional act: to grant those desecrated remnants a symbolic dignity.
And to transfigure those fields of sown death into breathless, but almost breathing images of life.
By transforming such remains into Seeds, Miranda-Bambarén affirms, to be sure, an ecological claim. But above all, he projects a metaphysical vision, a resurrectional act: to grant those desecrated remnants a symbolic dignity.
And to transfigure those fields of sown death into breathless, but almost breathing images of life.