LAURA GIUSTI, Argentina
Cardboard clothes, from the Cardboard series
Why is your trash my coat, your waste my bed, your rubbish my home? Cardboard, consumers waste, becomes the bed and blanket for the homeless. That is why those who sleep covered in cardboard are treated as trash. At first glance, a piece of cardboard on the street or a person wrapped in cardboard looks the same to a passerby. The general demand for clean streets does not distinguish between the waste that the rich get rid of and the person wrapped in this waste.
Cardboard-wrap, cardboard-blanket, cardboard-container, cardboard-house. My work is a gesture of respect and love, a call for forgiveness for our helplessness, a failed attempt to relieve ourselves of guilt.
Material: cardboard, textile, bias tape
Technique: papier-maché, sewing, tea dyeing
Laura Giusti is a cultural manager, teacher and jewelry designer, born and living in Argentina, although she has also lived for a while in Peru and Uruguay. She studied anthropology, theatre and jewelry design with various mentors in Peru and Argentina. She has been teaching contemporary jewelry making in her own studio for fifteen years. In 2008, she founded Joyeros Argentinos, today a reference platform for contemporary jewelry in Argentina and Latin America, which organizes exhibitions, debates, educational programs and promotes the work of contemporary jewelry artists. Together with Paula Isola, she organizes the Latin American Biennal of Contemporary Jewelry, which has had four editions to date. As an artist, she has participated in numerous national and international exhibitions.
Website: lauragiusti.com.ar
Instagram: @lauragiustijoyas
