claudia borgna
"Traveling around the world I have come to realise that we
are living in a world that overflows with waste.
This was the starting point that led me to investigate the relationship
between discarded materials, such as plastic bags, and the environment.
In the past years I have been looking at how rubbish and man
made
objects are very much transforming and creating new landscapes and
becoming more and more integrated into nature.
This process, which I name “the evolution of
landscape”,
and that is generated by our modern lifestyle, (consumption), I find
very interesting to observe, because it makes it, from an artistic
point of view, a very exciting material to work with and exploit.
After working for years with all sorts of discarded
materials,
waste and rubbish, I decided that for the time being I would focus on
working just with plastic bags.
I think that plastic bags epitomize the perfect and quintessential
discarded object.
To me the plastic bag is the symbolic embryo that contains our
lifestyle and is the vessel that carries it out in its
journey.
I find plastic bags interesting because of their remarkable
contradictory qualities. Plastic bags are in fact both worthless and
useful, disposable and recyclable, flimsy and strong, ephemeral and
eternal, but above all they are universal.
By putting the plastic bag in an artistic context I would
like to
elevate it to another dimension that takes it away from the idea of the
banal and obvious and for an instant transforms it into a poetic
object. In other words it becomes an inspiring muse. A mass-produced
muse with forms, lines and colour, that can’t help but
interact
with the surrounding environment."
