Installation

2018

 

What stays after humanity disappeared? We influenced our planet’s appearance more than any other species before: built houses, streets, highways, big industries, introduced agriculture. Changed landscapes. Anyhow, after a surprisingly short while nature would have taken over again, no matter how strong and indestructible our civilisation might have appeared. Our civilisation will rotten away. Plants, animals and the elements rule again. Nature takes its lands back.

 

But in the continuous and ever existing, very human thought of becoming unforgotten, humanity created plastic. Again, I’m thinking about what stays. It is the tons of plastic, desperately not rotting, not recyclable, not disappearing. Plastic bags and bottles, more and more colourful artificial pieces that became fundamental for humanity to exist. And now humanity is gone. It is the plastic that stays. It stays for centuries, a bit less colourful, a bit less bright, but surely existing.

 

There is plastic bags floating through the wide seas and oceans of our blue planet, plastic trash holds covering vast landscapes, plastic bags drifting with the winds. My artwork symbolises the plastic pollution through one of these many plastic bags. Ironically it is printed on plastic. We cannot get away from it. Its functionality is of too high importance to simply be not used. You may think one bag only is of no matter - but in fact, it takes many and there is many and this is represented by my thought of layering the images.