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Portal VaticanNews reports on an exhibition by Vivian Suter at Rome’s Botanical Garden and Via della Conciliazione 5, inaugurated by Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, where nature is elevated to co-creator status in artistic works. The “Dicastery for Culture and Education” frames this as a challenge to “dominant, sleepwalking categories,” claiming humanity’s “inseparable bond with nature” is foundational to existence. Suter’s canvases—altered by Guatemalan hurricanes, mud, animal footprints, and jungle elements—are presented as a dialogue with the environment, with curator Cristiana Perrella declaring they remind us “we are part of the environment.” The exhibition explicitly ties itself to the ecological themes of Bergoglio’s *Laudato si’* and antipope Leo XIV’s *Dilexi Te*, urging care for “our common home.”