Plastic in the System
In her first major solo exhibition Plastic in the System, Berlin-based artist Anna-Lena Dauber presents recent works. Through sculptures, photographs, and digital collages, she engages with the materiality of the city, translating it—both digitally and plastically—into hybrid, otherworldly compositions that merge into a multimedia installation.
Plastic spreads relentlessly through all systems—from the oceans to the bloodstream of living beings. It thus becomes an active agent, shaping ecological, social, and aesthetic structures and demanding recognition as a participant in them.
By assembling thousands of rigid fragments, the artist generates new functions, interrelations, and perspectives of meaning. The sculptures recall complex ecosystems in which nature and culture interpenetrate one another. Photographs and digital collages expand this view by rendering urban surfaces visible as landscapes shaped by both human and non-human forces.
Dauber’s recompositions invite viewers to look more closely at the familiar and to recognize the often-overlooked presence of seemingly inanimate matter as an active component of our world. Plastic in the System is an attempt to find meaning within the flood of waste and seemingly useless material, approaching the complex interactions between humans, things, and the environment through aesthetic experience.
Donation account
name: ANNA-LENA DAUBER
name: ANNA-LENA DAUBER
IBAN: DE12 1001 1001 2126 2597 74
BIC: NTSBDEB1XXX