The Fragility of the Future

The series of monumental papier-mâché animals created by Jacopo Allegrucci for Inequalities conveys an urgent and profound reflection on the fragility of our ecological reality and on the inequalities that characterize our relationship with the natural world. Allegrucci’s works, inspired by the extinction and depletion of materials, represent a powerful symbol of the environmental and social fractures that threaten the Earth’s equilibrium. The artist explores not only the disappearance of particular animal species, but also the fragile and temporary condition of the matter that constitutes them. Papier-mâché, the quintessential recyclable material, becomes a symbol of vulnerability and decay, destined to show signs of aging, especially when directly exposed to the elements. The sculptures—a blue whale (May 13 – July 14), a Namibian elephant (July 24 – September 2) a Rothschild giraffe (September 3 – Octber 5), and a hippopotamus (October 6 – November 9)— a symbol of the grandeur at risk of extinction, take place in succession in the forecourt of Triennale.