Possibilities from Art and Material
What would you do with 50,000 eggshells?
That was the initial question of Cambio Inminente, an exhibition that was born in Antigua Guatemala in 2025 and seeks to rethink how we think about materials, design and sustainability. What is normally discarded in seconds – a broken shell – became the starting point for exploring new ways of creating and imagining possible futures.
The project not only shows artistic pieces: it opens a space for dialogue. It invites us to reflect on how we live with the objects we produce and consume, and what happens to them after fulfilling their “function”. This exhibition, instead of proposing quick solutions, proposes a more attentive look from an exploratory approach: listening to what the materials have to tell us, letting their capacities, physical-chemical qualities and availability guide the way.
The possibilities it generates are multiple:
- Culturally, it recovers ancestral knowledge, such as natural dyes (indigo, palo de vida, cochineal), which connect with the land and memory.
- In the environmental sphere, it proposes a model of circularity where what is discarded returns as a resource, avoiding the constant extraction of the “new”.
- On the social front, it shows that change requires networks: from kitchens that store shells to teams that research and test.
Cambio Inminente is, at its core, an invitation to everyone: designers, artists, teachers, students, cooks and ordinary citizens. It reminds us that transformation does not begin in large factories or abstract policies, but in the everyday, in what we overlook today.
