Waste and Recycling

Centro de Arte y Naturaleza
Fundación Beulas
C/ Doctor Artero, s/n
Huesca
Spain 22004
t. +34 974 239 893

Exhibition:
Rummaging in the garbage: Waste and recycling in the contemporary art

"The first notions that usually come to mind when considering garbage, waste and deterioration are generally negative, when not outright nauseating. We are aware of the physical and chemical processes of the matter around us, beginning with the cycles of nature itself, including industrial processes, technical constructions and manufactured consumer items, and ending with the very materiality of the human being as a living organism. This crisscrossing of elements and activities-which, after all, is what makes the human being civilized and cultural, negotiating and struggling to domesticate and exploit the landscape and the ecosystem, the planet, in short-generates endless reactions, overpopulation and overproduction, upsets and imbalances, and therefore waste, before which we often do not know how to react or that, metaphorically, but also in the practical reality, we end up sweeping under the rug and looking the other way."

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[text from Centro website. Graphic from Google image search for 'Chris Jordan,' participating artist Caption: "Recycling Yard #6." Cross-posted to Signal Fire.]