Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through Teaser

Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through

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September 8—November 20, 2021

University of Toronto Art Centre

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Organized by Synthetic Collective

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Cinematography, editing, and production by Vuk Dragojevic (vukdragojevic.com)

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Plastic Heart is an experimental exhibition that examines plastic as art material, cultural object, geologic process, petrochemical product, and a synthetic substance fully entangled with the human body. The exhibition includes new commissions, historical and contemporary artworks that relate to plastic as a politically loaded material, and investigations into the paradoxes of plastic conservation in museum collections. The exhibition acknowledges plastics as both lubricants of artistic, gallery, and museum practices and also as ‘wicked problems,’ made even more complex by their use and discard in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Read more on Art Museum's website: artmuseum.utoronto.ca/exhibition/plastic-heart/