NEW EPISODES OF THE PLASTIC LIFE
HOLLYWOOD™. His way, Andy Warhol announced this aesthetic democratisation of the future: "I love Hollywood. Over there the whole world is made of plastics". A plastic world, a world of plastics, with or without plastic surgery. Plastic feelings, plastic identities, artists of plastic or covered by chewing gum. Plastic seduction. Cosmetic eternity in antiquated celluloid. Stills of a laminated or canned life. Following the specialised critic: "the secret life of the polymers forms large molecule-chains, entangled in a biochemical redefinition of the social contract and living together." Don't miss the new episodes of The Plastic Life. The most successful TV series. Now available to everyone.
LILLIPUT™. A megastore of "a dollar each", a giant cheap-jack, that is what the life and works of the personalities at Iñaki Larrimbe's photos seem like. A humongous shopping mall of consumer goods where even the consumer has turned into an everyday-product. Lifes produced on the assembly line like the objects making them (im)possible. Patrons of life who are as homogenised as the would-be utilities these objects are devoted to. The same gestures, the same acts, the same attitudes, the same emotions (greet each other or not, love each other or not, hate each other or yes), only that now they are free of any contents, cast in plastic. Everything is getting smaller, decreasing or losing substance or quality. Being price-reduced inhabitants of a consumer society, these personalities live surrounded by (not) utilisable objects, overcome by their immense banality, captured in these snapshots of a synthetic citizenship where the presence of the consumer goods, they can never cope with, dominates. The plot of The Plastic Life is as exciting as a shopping day or an SMS: a personality observes the desolate landscape from the top of a pin curler, another one is circulating at the round edge of a plastic glass, another one is flaying his feet with a scouring pad of metal, or is perishing in the softness of an intact sponge, or is measuring with his feet the length of a gum finger, or is walking the circumference of a straightened up button, or he takes the risk to climb until the top of a container cap, or he is lifting up the head to the top of a toothbrush, maybe with the intention of throwing himself into the emptiness of the truth leaving behind the decorative emptiness of the kitchen, the bathroom, the main sleeping room, the living room, the corridor, the children's room, etc. Every now and then, some lovers were moving away from the group with the aim to experience more intensively the sunrise of their new artificial condition. They are swelling with pride in a porous landscape of sponges and let themselves be consumed slowly while consuming their love in the malleable speech of their burnt members.
BEDLAM MADHOUSE™.There is an uncurable evil, an endemic type of cancer, a leprous fire corroding the surface of this world of seemingly immortal goods. A plague affecting products and consumers equally. It is not the romantic death but the date of expiry marked by a new calendar of commerce. If any of the personalities dares to speak against the way of living of the others, object of this world of objects without objective, he is diagnosed immediately with the incriminating presence of the disease and the symptomatic stain is localised in some hidden crease of his anatomy. In these cases, it is usually said that the stain tells its own tale and he is isolated from the rest and condemned to a loneliness of wandering about within other ills, without aspiring any kind of communication with his fellows. Though, often there are appearing unexpected mutations. A body melts with another or immerses a part of itself in the body of the other one. An object of daily use reaches such a high grade of intimacy with its user that it's becoming part of his body, as natural prosthesis. A glass emerges thus from a face or the cap of an aerosol can from an arm. The treacherous contiguity between flesh and plastic still promises big miracles, abnormal nuptials, astonishing transformations. The Plastic Life. The first seasons already on DVD.
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