MARCH 10 – MAY 15, 2025
WINDOW INSTALLATION:
THE STRUGGLE: ENDING OUR PLASTIC ADDICTION​
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RECEPTION & PANEL DISCUSSION
Saturday, March 22, 3:30 – 5 PM
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Since their mass production began after World War II, plastics have proven immensely useful, cheap, and versatile. They touch every part of our lives and have profoundly changed how we live on a global scale. But today, the resulting tsunami of plastic pollution is choking our planet, polluting rivers and oceans and infiltrating and slowly poisoning virtually all organisms, including humans. Taina Litwak's visually striking window installation at the Crow's Nest challenges the viewer to consider how to reduce our dependence on plastics, to accept the multiple failures of recycling programs, and to imagine how plastics may be managed sustainably and perhaps eventually replaced with better alternatives.​​
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Thank you to Julia Beaumier from the WWF and Allison Blood of The Waterfront Partnership for joining us on the panel.
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ARTIST
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Tania Litwak is an activist artist whose sculptures and installations focus on the modern ubiquity of plastics and electronics in every aspect of life. The work is largely confessional and consists of discarded plastics. These things, so varied in color, texture, weight, purpose, and durability, are flat and ominous, revealing their fundamental nature: toxic petroleum waste. Tania's immersive and monochromatic work provokes a clearer understanding of plastics and the way consumer society sees them.
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