"pLASTOPia: Future Ecologies"

In 2014, humanity bought 60% more clothing than in 2000 — and wore it for only half as long.The fashion industry alone is responsible for nearly 10% of global carbon emissions, and is estimated to pollute 20% of the world’s clean water.Each time synthetic fabrics are washed, around 500,000 tons of microfibers are released into the oceans.A single polyester garment can shed up to 700,000 microplastics.It takes 2,700 liters of freshwater to produce a single cotton T-shirt — enough to meet one person’s drinking needs for 2.5 years.

If you are paying less than something is worth,someone — or something — else is paying the price:A human, an animal, a plant, the soil, the water… or all of them together.

The products of the culture industry are fast, fleeting, and disposable during production and consumption.But once discarded into nature, they become slow, persistent, durable — and nearly eternal.

And evolution often emerges from chaos...

Recent research reveals that microplastics now exist not only in oceans, but in soil, air, lungs, breast milk, placentas — even the bloodstream.

Plastopia is an art project that speaks through irony, shaped by scientific and statistical reality.It envisions a post-ecological-collapse world — a world where all resources have been depleted.And in this barren aftermath, it imagines new life forms:Organisms born in the Anthropocene, shaped by exposure to plastic — not destroyed by it, but adapted to it.They evolve, harnessing plastic’s flexibility and longevity for survival.

Plastopia is the vision of life born not from nature — but from what refuses to decay.It gazes upon waste not as an ending, but as an ironic beginning.