Precious Waste is a mixed-media exhibition that proposes jewelry pieces, photography, and recycled materials to guide the passengers through a transformation from trashed objects into artistic creations in a journey of 28 streetlamps at the Jinny Street Gallery.
The itinerant exhibition shows a retrospective of the ByLUDO design collections. Alongside artistic creations, viewers will see their original, unprocessed states.
Throughout her research, Ludo has investigated ways to recycle and reimagine all the components of keyboards as well as other e-waste. The design inspiration for the creation of the ByLUDO artistic pieces comes from the study of the material properties and their playful reconfiguration into wearable pieces.
In Precious Waste, each collection will be presented as an unused material, as a transformed artistic jewelry, and as a photographic reinterpretation. Thanks to the progression of these three steps, the visitor walking through the Jingumae 2-chome streetlamps can visualize all the components and their transformation, demonstrating the creative possibilities and artistic expressions for the environmental practice of reuse.
The transformation journey terminates with the showcase of four artistic frames from the exhibition “Wirescapes: Connected with the Urban Fabric” created together with Toto Tvalavadze in 2022.
The small installations combine urban photographs and recycle keyboard cases and other tech-pieces to create unique artistic frames, showcasing creative ways of mingling and mixing different disciplines.
ByLUDO
ByLUDO is a brand of recycled technological waste founded by Ludovica Cirillo in Rome in 2008. Her inspiration came from her drawer full of pieces of earphones, electric cables and discarded computer keyboards. These pieces came to have a second life: first of all, being useful, then in disuse, they become ornamental and artistic objects. Her designs take their creative inspiration from the environmental practice of reuse, a concept particularly important in today’s wasteful consumerist society.
At 16 years old, for the first edition of the TNT exhibition organized by the Italian Ministry of Youth, Ludovica was selected amongst the first 200 Italian talents. After her work was showcased in a series of exhibitions in Rome, London, Madrid, Frankfurt, Paris, and Tel Aviv. (For full exhibition list please visit: https: //www.byludo.com/about/)
Since Ludovica moved to Japan and started working at Kengo Kuma and Associates, Tokyo, she had the chance to deeply explore Japanese culture and its ancient history of craftsmanship. She presented her new collection, “Mottainai”, conceived in Tokyo, at exhibition Umarekawaru: Born After Waste held in October 2021 at Haco Gallery. The collection mixes technological recycled pieces typical of the brand and assembles them through traditional Japanese craft techniques.
Inspired by the leftovers of her previous exhibitions and by the creative environment of Tokyo, she decided to expand the application of her materials to create artistic installations at Wirescapes: Connected with the Urban Fabric in 2022 together with Toto Tvalavadze.
Exhibition Views
Location
Streetlamps 1–28 were used in this exhibition. Streetlamps 29–42 were empty.