Plastic [best] - Nina

Artists began embedding Nina Plastic fragments in resin jewelry — a meta-commentary on preserving the disposable. The German collective Endlager produced Nina’s Ghost , a 12-minute film of a woman brushing her hair while the brush melts into her hands.

Nina Plastic: Material Identity, Perpetual Decomposition, and the Aesthetics of Synthetic Intimacy nina plastic

Thus, Nina Plastic is not a scientific category but a sociomaterial one: plastic designed for the female gaze, for the handbag, for the bathroom shelf, and for premature disposal. To understand Nina Plastic, we must revisit Bakelite (1907) — marketed to men as industrial strength — and celluloid (1856), used for combs and collars. By the 1950s, polyethylene and polystyrene became kitchen vernacular: Tupperware parties targeted housewives. Plastics were coded as feminine : flexible, colorful, disposable, and decorative. Artists began embedding Nina Plastic fragments in resin