Each year we are disposing of 380 million tonnes of plastic, at least 8 million tonnes of which goes into our oceans.
Each year we are disposing of 380 million tonnes of plastic, at least 8 million tonnes of which goes into our oceans. Since you started this sentence roughly 30 tonnes of plastic have been dumped in landfill — out of sight, out of mind. Except, this plastic is no longer really out of sight, and it is definitely on everyone’s minds. The world is running out of space to hide one of its worst-kept secrets: that the ‘wonder’ material of the 20th century will outlive our generation and those to come.
This is the theme that art collective Luz Interruptus addresses in one of their latest projects, ‘The Plastic We Live With’ (El plástico con el que vivimos). Luz Interruptus is an anonymous art collective from Spain whose work highlights social issues in a very public way, forcing humanity to reckon with difficult topics such as the loss of cultural monuments through the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and how overexploitation of the planet will expose us to health crises. Embedded in its name, the key medium for Luz interruptus is light, and it permeates throughout their myriad of projects across the globe. One installation — featured in the 1st issue of AAV— involved life-sized bodies made of discarded plastic, lit up from the inside and sprawled across Madrid. For Luz Interruptus, art and science are inextricably linked: “Light is our primary material, and a constant point of scientific investigation. Our work could not exist without scientists like Edison, Tesla, Faraday…”.
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