The series of monumental papier-mâché animals created by Jacopo Allegrucci conveys an urgent 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 whale, an elephant, a giraffe and an hippopotamus— a symbol of the grandeur at risk of extinction, take place in succession in the forecourt of Triennale.