PLASTICENE
PLASTICENE
by Natalia Mchedlishvili
PLASTICENE
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PLASTICENE is a four-part video installation that documents moments where the artist’s attention was captured by a visual harmony of consumer waste in a natural environment. In these scenes [floating in the sea of marmara, held in bushes or drifting down a river] synthetic remains perfectly mirror the colors of the natural world surrounding it.
The installation explores how pollution is a permanent, camouflaged fixture to the environment, rather than a disruption to it. By capturing these accidental color matches, the artist looks at the emerging hybrid ecosystem, where the boundaries between organic and the manufactured have begun to dissolve.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER:
Natalia Mchedlishvili, or Nanoshi, (she/her) is a researcher, social worker, and multimedia artist currently pursuing an MA in Visual Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Grounded in social justice, intersectional feminism, and queer politics, she brings a decade of experience to her work on women’s and queer issues in Georgia, where she has served as a researcher, a well-being service planner and provider for the FLINTA community, and a contributor to communication strategies, informal education, and artistic interventions.
In 2023, she expanded her practice into art, utilizing photography, video, and installations to bridge her background in social research with multimedia storytelling. Her research and creative interests span trauma, social and economic inequality, gender and sexuality, labor, migration, and technologies. She held her first exhibition What I Have Seen and Listened To in Tbilisi in 2025 combining photos, videos and a sound installation to present an intimate portrait of womanhood through the tattoos and oral histories of women engaged in prostitution.
