Archaeoplastics
Archeoplastics: the incorruptible style
26 May to 26 June 2024
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“Archeoplastiche: lo stile incorruttibile“, which opened on 11 May on the occasion of the opening of the Festival of Sustainable Development 2024 as a preview of the Museum’s exhibition season, hosts a selection from the “Museum of Ancient Waste” of the “Archeoplastica” project and combines plastic material, aesthetic form and time to address the problem of the insidious durability of plastic objects. The objects on display were collected from Italian beaches and the “oldest” ones date back to the 1960s: like a sort of carbon 14 dating – where the only (or almost only) temporal indicator becomes design – visitors will be able to take a close look at almost archaeological objects, witnesses of the insidious effects of pollution.
Discovering the age of the objects and their history will lead to the tangible and unexpected realisation of how long the half-life of plastics is and will force the visitor into a compulsory awareness, a different way of ascertaining one’s knowledge of waste, micro and macro plastics and generating responsible behaviour.
The exhibition is realised in collaboration with Archeoplastica and class 3 A Classics of the Liceo G. M. Dettori of Tempio, which took care of the set-up, as part of the project ‘Organica EDU: – knowledge, skills and competences between art and environment in the Limbara Park’ supported by the Fondazione di Sardegna.
Biography
Archeoplastica is a project to raise awareness of the problem of plastic pollution and promote a more conscious and responsible use of this material. Since 2018, numerous plastic waste items, dating from 30 to 60 years ago, have been selected to create a virtual museum and various exhibitions in schools and other public places. The display of beached plastic artefacts from over 50 years ago is the pretext to tell a never-ending story, that of the immortal plastic that is increasingly accumulating in our seas. Only knowledge and awareness of the problem will lead to a change in our daily use of plastic.
Text taken from www.archeoplastica.it, which we invite you to visit to learn more about the project.
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