A gallery in Guatemala City has jumped into the viral meme trend “nature is healing”. The meme usually features fake photos about animals suddenly emerging in cities. The gallery, Proyectos Ultravioleta Photoshopped animals into their installations in a new exhibition, The Gardeners. Hyperallergic has the details:
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“We’ve witnessed the return of swans to Venice, dolphins in Sardinia, mountain goats in North Wales, and now the unimaginable: ostriches, pandas, and even penguins, amongst other animal friends in our space in Guatemala!!” reads the caption of the gallery’s Instagram post, where the images were first shared.
Proyectos Ultravioleta closed its doors about three weeks ago, after the first case of the coronavirus was confirmed in Guatemala. Stefan Benchoam, one of the gallery’s co-founders, told Hyperallergic the meme idea came as the team brainstormed how to rethink its programming for an online-only platform.
“Suddenly we saw a saturation of the digital space. The question for us was, how can we add to this?” he said. “We didn’t just want to add more noise, we wanted to make people smile a little bit.”
image via Hyperallergic
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