FLORA & PLASTIKA

The word flora derives from Latin and is the name of the goddess of fertility, plants, and flowers. Flora was used for referring to the flowers of an artificial garden in the seventeenth century. This type of artificiality is nothing compared to the artificiality of Plastika from Plastic derived from the Greek plasticos, a material that virtually is eternal and shapes this concept materially and ideologically. Showing the contrast between organic and artificial, the meaning of what it is and the levels in between, the original and fake, the real and unreal… all that while showcasing our struggle trapped in these polar opposites with the personal and interpersonal, the natural and the norms and constructs of society.