Cesto de basura

A piece woven from plastic waste, to which wrappers, packaging and household waste bags are added in a spiral through intuitive assembly. The basket is built from fragments of waste: a container that embodies the paradox of being its own contents.

In the frenzy of acquiring and throwing away, the wastebasket is a symbol of relentless linearity. Sorting, cleaning or holding on to waste seems like relief in the face of excess, a momentary gesture of relief from an underlying unease; yet the garbage keeps growing and overflows the limits of any container.

The piece is a metaphor for an invisible, overflowing crisis: the accumulation of plastic waste that shows how what is thrown out of sight remains, returning as an insistent matter that surrounds and contains us.