David Cejudo
SEPIOLITA
Sepiolita is a material and formal investigation that explores synthetic waste as material which can build its own autonomous ecosystems. We see synthetic matter as a human-created, polluting and, therefore, destructive element. But what happens when it becomes waste and once again forms part of a natural ecosystem?
The project is named after an absorbent mineral used in industry to recycle chemical spills that pose a threat to natural ecosystems and is designed to act like this mineral. When synthetic waste is wrapped in sepiolite, a chemical spill is controlled and stopped, but a boundary is created where everything that remains inside is considered harmful and corrupt and order needs to be restored. What would happen if corrupt matter became autonomous? Could waste be understood as material that builds new ecosystems? Can you build with what destroys?
The project has been supported by Gabriel Alonso.
David Cejudo
SEPIOLITA
Sepiolita is a material and formal investigation that explores synthetic waste as material which can build its own autonomous ecosystems. We see synthetic matter as a human-created, polluting and, therefore, destructive element. But what happens when it becomes waste and once again forms part of a natural ecosystem?
The project is named after an absorbent mineral used in industry to recycle chemical spills that pose a threat to natural ecosystems and is designed to act like this mineral. When synthetic waste is wrapped in sepiolite, a chemical spill is controlled and stopped, but a boundary is created where everything that remains inside is considered harmful and corrupt and order needs to be restored. What would happen if corrupt matter became autonomous? Could waste be understood as material that builds new ecosystems? Can you build with what destroys?
The project has been supported by Gabriel Alonso.
