Since August 31, the regions of Pinheiros and Butantã, around MuBE - Brazilian Museum of Sculpture and Ecology, have been receiving 15 sculptures created by visual artist Eduardo Srur, which refer to a bucket - an object used for waste disposal and increasingly present in public space.

The sculptures have the original shape and size of a garbage bucket, but they are hollowed out and made up only of metal lines around them, provoking a reflection about the excess of waste produced by society. Currently, 20 thousand tons of waste are generated per day in the metropolis and there are thousands of irregular points where people discard everything. "The intervention points a new visual meaning to an everyday object that serves to disappear with the garbage, but the garbage doesn't disappear, it changes place." Also, according to Srur: "these are conceptual buckets that also reflect on the need to discard our mental waste, every day. Of ideas and thoughts that are useless to society and to ourselves", concludes the artist.

During the exhibition, the sculptures will be moved periodically and installed in other urban spots, so they will gradually migrate to the outskirts of the city. "There is no magic with our garbage. The displacement of the sculptures symbolizes this perverse disappearance of waste to distant and less assisted places in society."

During the exhibition, the artist will make a photographic essay of the chaotic places where the buckets are installed, addressing some dramatic points of the metropolis where garbage and irregular disposal dominate the urban landscape.

Besides the sites initially occupied in the city, Srur participates with the work "Caçambas" (Buckets) in the exhibition Ambiental: arte e movimentos (Environment: art and movements), at MuBE - Brazilian Sculpture and Ecology Museum. The show aims to reaffirm the museum's vocation to defend the environment. The curatorship is organized by the museum and the SOS Mata Atlântica Foundation. In the show, Srur presents a video of the work produced inside CEAGESP, where tons of food are wasted daily.

Informative:

Urban Intervention "Buckets
Date: August 31 to October 31
Launching at the Brazilian Museum of Sculpture and Ecology (MuBE)
August 31 from 12pm to 6pm
Rua Alemanha, 221, Jardim Europa, São Paulo
Event open and free