Black Box Projects

CAST AWAY / VICTORIA MARQUES PINTO
 
Imagine a world defined by what we discard: memories intertwined with man-made waste; our bodies undisguisable from the plastic-nature of modern life…
 
Artist Victoria Marques Pinto explores the dystopian realities of the human impact on our natural world in her series Lost Paradise where she incorporates found plastic waste as collage elements into her archival family photographs. The waste has been collected from the very locations featured in her images, resulting in jarring, surrealistic and tongue-in-cheek remaking’s of the artist’s fond childhood memories.
 
Marques Pinto suggests a world where identity is obscured by the consequences of our consumerism and our natural world is marred by the waste we discard. 
 
Each work in the Lost Paradise series is unique, featuring plastic that has been collected by the artist from her beach clean-ups. The photographic collages of Victoria Marques Pinto are presented in artist-designed, handmade frames with museum UV glaze. 
 
Seen here:
Cast Aways, 2023
Found plastic and paper collage on C-Type Fuji Gloss print
31.5 x 31.5 cm framed
Unique

This series was first exhibited in full at the Approche salon in Paris, autumn 2023. To learn more about Lost Paradise and the work of Victoria Marques Pinto please contact the gallery by DM here or [email protected].