PLASTIC VISIONS: An Exploration of Identity and Unstable Matter
Posted on December 11 2025

Plastic Visions is a collective exhibition of photography, video, and digital visual design that reflects on our time — suspended between the legacy of what has been and the irreversibility of what we are becoming. Hosted at Spazio Millepiani in Rome from November 21 to December 24, 2025, the exhibition brings together diverse artistic perspectives in a shared narrative: that of a displaced humanity, increasingly detached from nature and its own consciousness, yet still obsessed with myth, beauty, and memory.
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At the heart of the exhibition, the notion of “permanence” is continually questioned. The works depict monuments, sculptures, neoclassical busts, and museum relics which, despite their marble stillness, appear suspended between presence and absence, memory and oblivion. The photographs linger on the cracks of time, the tears left by history, the physical ruptures that become metaphors for a deeper fragility—of identity, ideology, and collective consciousness.

Mythical figures are no longer invincible heroes but human beings caught in moments of reflection, sorrow, and doubt. Cleopatra weeps butterflies, Hercules forgets his strength, Venus receives a gift steeped in tragedy. Even the gods appear uneasy, disturbed, as if aware they inhabit a limbo between history and fiction. The statues speak, but their language is silent and intimate, like a voice reaching us across time.
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The relationship between humankind and nature emerges with strong visual and conceptual impact. The Earth is portrayed as a suffering organism, a once-perfect mechanism now poisoned by waste, plastic, and loneliness. The images depict contaminated landscapes, ecosystems reduced to dumpsites, places visibly scarred by human excess: “the whole world becomes a vast, moving cemetery.”
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Yet the exhibition is not solely about denunciation. Many works convey a yearning for reconnection, a need to rediscover a lost spiritual balance.

In this tension between destruction and the search for sacredness, water and sky become symbols of convergence. A meditative space is created — like a church — where humanity sits with its head in its hands, facing its ecological and existential failure.
Alongside urban and sculptural visions, the exhibition reveals interior and natural landscapes that seem to emerge from an archaic dream. Abandoned gardens, wild rosemary, untended olive trees, night skies studded with stars: real and imagined places that evoke the silent presence of Etruscan gods, the breath of the Earth before humankind. In these images, one senses a primordial nostalgia, a longing to return, to listen, to immerse oneself in a non-linear time where memory blurs into myth.
Every image in the exhibition is a palimpsest — a surface that tells, layer after layer, the passage of time. The works remind us that every object, every sculpted face, every corner of a museum carries a weight of unspoken stories, which only the artist’s gaze can bring to light. In this context, photography is not mere documentation but revelation: a way to make the invisible visible, to hear what has been silenced.
Plastic Visions is an exhibition about the ambiguity of our era. It is a poetic and critical investigation into what remains, what deforms, what is forgotten or sublimated. An invitation to look more closely—at what surrounds us, and at what inhabits us.











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