The project Destructive Union by Aigerim Karimova – a student at NABA – investigates the invisible link between fashion and oil, showing how, often unknowingly, we become part of oil disasters through what we wear every day.
Intensive oil production and frequent spills have devastating effects on the environment, but the disaster does not end there: it continues in the products derived from the oil itself.
The fashion industry, which is strongly linked to the oil industry, uses synthetic materials such as polyester and nylon, fibers produced directly from oil and now dominant in the textile market because of their low cost and accessibility.
These materials, however, generate waste that does not decompose, pollutes ecosystems, and threatens human health through the release of microplastics.
The project emphasizes how oil disasters are not just distant events, but manifest themselves in our daily lives, in the clothes we wear, making us part of a widespread and often ignored system of pollution.
The installation created, along with the other finalist projects of the GTA Contest, will be on view from December 5 to 8 at the MAXXI Museum in Rome.
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