Waiting for a miracle Painting

Darion Shabbash — artist from Almaty (Kazakhstan), lives and works in Berlin. She mainly uses plastic as a base material in her work, as a reaction to our culture of consumerism that is unscrupulously exploiting toxic materials. Plastic has become a part of our culture and everyday life, but at the same time plastic waste is thickly covering vast areas of our land and waters. All this litter accumulates but never fully dissipates, and it keeps circulating in our planet’s ecosystem. In her work Darion continues to explore plastic, researching aesthetic and features of this material, while reflecting on the influence of plastic on our environment. Graphic lines and flat images produce their own visual reality where the eye isn’t tricked by the mimicry of realism, but is rather taken into another graphic space that has a strong connection to the artist’s graffiti and street art practices. In her video work Darion constructs a reality of utopia, where society as a whole is involved into sustainable living and a cycle of plastic recycling. The artist is involving the community in the creation of her objects — the only thing they have to do is to not dispose their plastic.