Biomater. Rethinking the Possibilities of Matter and our Relationship with Waste

Abstract

The project addresses the relationship between humans and the materials with which they have articulated their artificial environment. the installation, developed with organic materials such as seaweed, citrus peel, paper and reused textile material, alludes to grouped forms, volumes and agglomerations coloured with natural pigments obtained from vegetables such as turmeric, beetroot and purple corn, spirulina and earth from different sources. On several occasions, the work was mounted in specific sizes and bases, depending on the exhibition space in Santiago, London and Paris. The fragility and possible degradation to which the work will be exposed over time favour (by opposition) a reflection on the synthetic materials we have created throughout our history as humanity