Plastic Entanglements: Ecology, Aesthetics, Material

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Sep 22 2018 - Dec 30 2018

Organized around the curatorial concept of entanglement – which describes the literal entanglements of animals and plastic detritus as well as the plasticity of global networks – the exhibition explores the unique materiality of plastic, as an artistic material and potent symbol of Western modernity, and considers the environmental consequences of its widespread use. Plastic Entanglements charts the temporal nature of this seemingly ubiquitous material that is at once miraculous and malignant, ephemeral yet relentlessly enduring. Plastic’s temporal entanglements create the exhibition narrative, unfolding thematically as the archive, the entangled present, and speculative futures. Ultimately, the exhibition argues that plastic entangles categories of the aesthetic, the ethical, the material, the technological, and the critical.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website 

  • Various Media
  • International
  • Contemporary
  • Ifeoma U. Anyaeji
  • Vik Muniz
  • Aurora Robson

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