Video: Mountains of trash or art? Installations by Portia Munson
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
All installations Portia Munson are made according to the same principle: the author collects many objects, united by a common idea, and simply piles them up or puts them in a certain order. By and large, these are mountains of rubbish. But then why is this rubbish not in landfills, but in exhibition halls? The series of installations "Pink Projects" is dedicated to the color pink, which in society is usually associated with the female sex. The number of cheap gizmos of this color, collected by Portia, is simply amazing: there are hair combs, mirrors, toys, jewelry, false nails … It seems that girls and women are forced to use pink objects just because the manufacturers simply do not leave them any other choice!
Works from the "Green Piece" cycle visually differ from the previous ones only in color, but the idea of these installations is somewhat different. Portia shows how manufacturers use color as a marketing tool: knowing that nature in our minds is associated with green, green plastic is used to produce everything that is at least in some way related to the living world (or should be perceived in this way). These installations include green fly swatters, toy dinosaurs, insect repellant sprays, garden tools, and more.
Finally, the third group of works ("The Garden") is devoted to artificial nature, which is so abundant in modern society. Fabrics with floral prints, armfuls of artificial flowers and dozens of plush hares - all this and much more can be seen in Portia Munson's colorful installations.
According to Portia herself, in general, all her works are devoted to the problem of consumerism in modern society. We mass produce and buy a huge number of items that some time later end up in a landfill or, at best, in storerooms and garages. Installations from this unnecessary rubbish are an attempt to protest against the consumer society and its culture. Maybe not entirely successful, but still an attempt.
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