Artist: Joyce Lubotzky
Year: 2023
Materials: Digital Photograph printed on Ilford Fibre Gloss paper
Edition: Edition of 3
Dimensions: 80cm X 120cm
Location: Sydney
Other info: Limited Edition Print delivered rolled in a tube.
About the artwork:
Souvenirs of Consumerism presents an investigation into the materiality and ontology of discarded plastic consumer waste through a new materialist reimagining of found discarded objects. The work examines the social and ecological impacts of waste by gleaning, photographing, archiving, curating, and installation of the waste itself in the gallery space. Challenging the delineations made between ‘life’ and ‘matter’, ‘animate things’ and ‘passive objects’ the studio practice attempts to contend with systems of consumption, object devaluation and ecological pollution.
The studio research is supported by a theoretical examination of the ‘aesthetic abject’, object-oriented ontology, vibrant materialism, and the multidisciplinary field of Discard Studies. The project considers fields of historical and contemporary photography, museology, and curatorial practices, and examines the work of contemporary visual artists addressing environmental pollution and waste through the presentation of found objects in collections, archives, or multimedia installations.
By defining the destiny of discarded waste through a range of artistic transformations, the work brings visual attention to the abject reality of our nature/culture disconnection. This project works to challenge systems of object (de)valuation, consumer behaviour and capitalist ideology, while working to revalue the offerings of environmental art within the consumer-centric art world itself. This work offers us a new way to see ourselves through the objects we have tried (and failed) to throw away.
$1,600.00
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