The night dew fails to soothe the forest; the rainy seasons are not enough to recover the nutrients of the scorched earth. Unavoidable and cascading environmental disasters leave traces of human blindness to the dramatic consequences of exploitative operations on a nature seen only as a resource.

"Vegetal Insomnia" is an exhibition that confronts us—through drawings of various sizes and installations—with an ecosystem made of remains, feelings, and reflections on the contemporary environmental horizon. It refers to the feeling of constant alertness and the permanent state of emergency of a nature that cannot find restorative rest.

Drawings that depict estrangement and shock; gales that bring remains turned into new presences in the landscape.

The exhibition does not elude moments of rest and reverie. The installation 'De-Forestación' (De-Forestation) invites visitors to walk through and contemplate a web of plant remains collected from my daily surroundings—something like a moment of calm amid some shadows and carbonized remains that are always present. Meanwhile, the small-format drawings attempt to bring us closer to minimal gestures that treasure the certainty, perhaps the longing, of its capacity for resistance.

By María Emilia Marroquín
March 2026