DARIA MARTINONI
The Plasticocene

Plastic is everywhere, in bottles, packaging and many other everyday objects. Yet, not all plastics are created equal. Plastics are a large family of different materials, each with its own properties, applications, and health and environmental impacts. The Society of the Plastics Industry thus introduced a classification system for the different types of plastics consisting of a number from 1 to 7 in a triangle of chasing arrows.
With this project, I aim at compiling an overview of the plastic types pervasive in our daily lives. For this purpose, I stage everyday plastic objects as Still Life arrangements, sorted by type of plastic. Each type is assigned a colour. A textual level provides background and consumer information. Meaning is created through the interplay of photographs, colours, symbols and texts. With this project, I want to create a visual world that expands our verbal notion of plastics, and to provide reliable information to support consumers in their purchase decisions.

Author
As a Geographer, I use photography to playfully (de)construct urban spaces, to spatially re-stage urban contexts, and to play with our perception of space and reality. I experiment with long shutter speeds and several zoom settings or camera positions in one exposure. This technique creates a moment of irritation, but also conveys a sense of calmness in the chaos, and transfers the scene into a transitional world somewhere between reality and dream. With this approach, I aime at questioning our making of the world through experience and knowledge.
I have been awarded a Honorable Mention in both the 2018 and 2019 International Photography Awards (@photoawards, @iphotoawards), four Honorable Mentions in the 2019 ipa “OneShot: Street Photography” Awards, and a Honorable Mention in the 2019 Budapest International Foto Awards (@budapestfotoawards, @ifotoawards). I have been accepted to to the photoSchweiz 19 (www.photo-schweiz.ch), which is the largest photography exhibition in Switzerland

Website
www.dariamartinoni.com

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