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Biodegradability is the new liquidity
Installation with soil and bioplastic film
Otto-Wagner-Postsparkasse, Vienna, 2025 

"Biodegradability is the new liquidity" is an installation inside a vitrine of the Otto-Wagner Postsparkasse. Made from biodegradable plastic and soil, it questions the value of cash and assets in a world where air, water, and food contamination threaten life. It explores plastic waste, while drawing a parallel between financial liquidity - the ease and efficiency with which an asset can be converted into ready cash- and biodegradability, this latter being the ability and ease with which materials break down into basic elements that the environment can safely reabsorb without causing harm or pollution

Both processes, liquidity and biodegradability, have their parameters and methods to be measured. In both instances, it is a matter of the fluidity with which complex elements are transformed into basic ones.

In recent decades, humans have realised that the overconsumption of natural resources and the mass production of non-biodegradable items pose a threat to themselves and all living organisms.

What value do assets have in a world where the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we consume, with their associated pollution levels, lead to poisoning, threatening our own lives and, for the matter, life in all its diversity?

Unlike traditional plastics, bioplastics are obtained from renewable resources, and most bioplastics are biodegradable.

art installation of vertically stretched bioplastic film from "Biodegradability is the new Liquidity" at the Otto Wagner PSK
Detail of gelatin-based bioplastic film stretched in a vitrine at the Otto Wagner PSK, touching a pile of soiltouching
Detail of amber colored gelatin-based bioplastic
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