IN FONDO AL MARE – AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA

Nobody knows how to calculate how much plastic really ends up in the sea – it is assumed between 4.8 and 12.7 million tons per year – but what we do know for sure is that by disintegrating into microplastics, it is deposited in all elements of the marine ecosystem. , everywhere from the sediments of the deepest ocean floors to the ice that floats in the Antarctic. It is a pervasive enemy, hidden in the deceptive transparency of water, nestled under the seductive alternation of an infinite scale of blue and green of the sea. This silent, widespread and dangerous invasion is the inspiration for the work on display by Susanna Cati in which, like a stone thrown into the water, it reveals the substance behind the appearance, it brings to light the pitfalls hidden beneath the surface. waves, one piece of plastic at a time, expanding like a metastasis. The artist places the observer in front of the raw truth showing, through an exasperated and surreal figure, the evolution of this colonization process, giving us back a seabed shaped by the interaction of water and plastic, a portion of the biome that it evokes the chromatic harmony, the plurality of forms, the richness of biodiversity, but which is only an artificial replica, an empty shell now devoid of any living organism, useful only in its aesthetic beauty to satisfy the eyes that do not want to see. (Barbara Pavan)