Plastic Utopia
by Henri Blommers
- Printed in France
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Technique: photography.
Exhibition available in several formats.
“It started with annoyance. The tree in front of my house is the first piece of nature I encounter when I leave my house, and every day I saw trash spontaneously accumulating underneath it. I wondered why.”
For three years, every day, Henri Blommers took a photo in exactly the same place (Wagenaarstraat series, named after the street where the artist lives): this is the origin of his fascination with all the objects we get rid of, sometimes without thinking about it, and, one thing leading to another, the starting point of the Plastic Utopia series.
“Plastic ends up in nature, but how long will it stay there? How will it decompose? Will our nature be flexible enough to handle this enormous flow of debris?” These are the questions Henri Blommers asked himself when he decided to photograph plastics abandoned in nature. By adding color casts to his images, he creates almost unreal worlds of disturbing beauty.
For Henri Blommers, the Plastic Utopia series is a way of looking to the future: “I hope that nature can absorb our consumption. We buy a croissant and eat it in a few minutes, but the plastic bag that wrapped it might last a thousand years. If you look closely, you can see plastic everywhere. You can see it especially in the layers of sand in the dunes. (…) I think consumers should pay more attention to their waste, but I also think the packaging industry, supermarkets, and the government play a role in this. We are society, and we can improve and adapt the world. We often think it’s the government, but we can also do it ourselves.”
• Outdoors: choose locations where people take a walk and/or where there is a lot of foot traffic: in the centre of the town, near a school, in a public garden or along a walking trail... And if possible, on flat ground!
• Indoors: reception hall, office, waiting room, dining room, meeting room - choose the best-lit space.
CAUTION: If the space where you are displaying the exhibition is slightly damp, we recommend purchasing eight simple frames of the same size (50 x 70 cm) to protect the prints.
The papers we have chosen for printing our exhibitions meet two essential criteria, among others: beautiful colour rendering and durability.
• Exhibitions intended for outdoor display are printed on high-quality 130gsm blue-backed paper.
• For exhibitions intended for indoor display, we have chosen a 550gsm semi-rigid paper to which we attach a simple hanging system. These panels can therefore be hung on a single nail or framed if they are to be displayed in a slightly damp location.
For outdoor displays, our poster formats have been chosen to best suit “election” billboards:
• Large outdoor format (84 x 119 cm) for maximum impact. With one poster per billboard, you will need eight in total.
• Small outdoor format (63 x 93 cm) so that two posters can be placed on the same billboard... meaning you only need to install four billboards.
• Indoor exhibition (50 x 70 cm): 8 prints to hang on 5 linear metres of free wall space.
Full view of the exhibition
Henri Blommers
Henri Blommers lives and works in Amsterdam.
A 2010 graduate of the Photo Academy, he works with a wide variety of digital and analog cameras, incorporating assemblage and collage into his practice, among other things. He claims to have a committed body of work, addressing contemporary social and environmental themes such as the impact of plastics on the environment, rising sea levels, the loss of biodiversity and the influence of digital society on our lives in bright colors and marked contrasts.
