Granulate is usually seen in a bag, a silo or a tray, as a technical input on its way to becoming packaging or a consumer product. At EBC 26, two artists will take it out of that context and use it as an artistic medium.
The artists have been given complete freedom to explore what bioplastic granulate can become in creative hands. Colour, translucency, texture, and the way the material melts, casts, and moulds are qualities a datasheet can only describe and an artwork can show. Left visible and beautiful rather than hidden from view, the material gains a human and emotional dimension that technical settings rarely allow.
The performance also offers something no conventional production environment can. Working by hand, the artists will push the material in ways a packaging converter neither would nor could: unusual temperatures, reheating, hand-processing and combination with other substances. They will share their observations on what worked, what failed, and how the pieces age over time, turning an artistic exploration into valuable, open-ended testing of the material’s possibilities.
Join us at EBC 26 to see bioplastics from a new perspective, as a material that is as expressive as it is functional.
The work of Adriana Takeuchi Libotte and Manuel Ahnemüller is funded by the GRECO and the ReBioCycle projects, respectively.
About Adriana Takeuchi Libotte
This curiosity is at the heart of her artistic practice. Working primarily with textiles, Adriana is drawn to their tactile nature, their presence in everyday life and their ability to transform a two-dimensional surface into a three-dimensional landscape of textures, structures and possibilities. Through weaving, sewing, collage and other techniques, she explores how structures are built, how different elements come together and what allows them to hold.
https://www.spaceofhearts.studio/adrianatakeuchi
About Manuel Ahnemüller
