Date/Time
Date(s) - 03/09/2024 - 08/11/2024
12:00 am
Location
Carnegie Museum Of Art
Categories
Exploring our fraught, yet enmeshed, kinship with polymers, this exhibition considers the ways these materials both shape and erode contemporary ecologies, economies and the built environment.
A polymer is a substance created by combining many small molecules called monomers in a chain or network. The term “polymer” was coined in 1893 by Swedish chemist and nobleman Baron Jons Jacob Berzelius (1779-1848). Synthetic polymers (commonly referred to as plastics) are constructed as bead-like pieces that are transformed by manufacturers into a wide variety of products and used by artists in many creative ways. Synthetics regularly add to the world’s pollution crisis when they are not recycled or otherwise disposed of properly.
“Everlasting Plastics” highlights our unseen dependency; demonstrates how plasticity has created expectations for the behaviors of other materials; and points to plastic’s unknown, long-term and indelible impact on our futures.
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