Bottlefield
Bottle caps falling on the surface of the sea like bullets hurled on a battlefield: already from its title, Bottlefield by Marta Ciolkowska, shows – through a calembour – its denunciation. The expressive capacity of verbal language, which uses homophony as a statement, reverberates with the sonic-visual one of the video.
Plastic pollution of liquid spaces is one of the most urgent environmental problems to be fully aware of, addressed and solved. The accelerated production of objects employing such material, triggered by their increasing consumption, has intoxicated and is suffocating our planet: we are drowning submerged in the waste of our society, we are victims of a disposable culture daughter of comfort. But it’s important to change perspective, to move away from the anthropocentric one, to realize how marine populations are also at risk; by feeding on nanofibers already from the larval state they face certain death.
The video ends, however, with a message of hope: a hand reaching out to bring back to the surface – to the light and to life – humanity stricken by the blows of a progress that, every day more and more, turns out, from an ecological point of view, to be a real regression.
Text by Mara Chiara Wang
Marta Ciolkowska is based in Giarre (CT), Italy & Warsaw, Poland.
Marta Ciołkowska is a Polish artist, currently living in Italy, who works within and in between the fields of video, installation, sculpture and graphics, exploring the topics of human relations and impact on the environment and the influence that the surrounding technology has on a modern man. She hold a MA in Interior Design from the Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz (Poland). In last few years, she took part in different international exhibitions, festivals, workshops and artist in residency programs.