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For several years, Lia Bagrationi has collected discarded polyethylene bags — objects typically designed for short-term use and considered devoid of value.

Over time, these everyday materials have become an archive of daily life.

To create Futuristic Fresco, she ironed thousands of plastic bags and reassembled them into a single continuous surface that covers the gallery walls like a fresco.

Within this work, the act of ironing functions as a deliberate artistic gesture.

Bagrationi reinterprets one of the most invisible forms of women's domestic labour, transforming repetitive acts of care into a material language that records the traces of human existence.

Futuristic Fresco emerges from a long process of accumulation, preservation, and transformation.

At the centre of the installation is a video in which polyethylene bags, animated by air currents, remain in constant motion.

The relationship between the static surface of the walls and the moving image reflects two possible states of memory — one fixed and one in flux.

The installation forms part of Bagrationi's ongoing project, Earth is Female, in which the Earth is understood as a space of accumulated memory and lived experience.

Through this work, Bagrationi imagines a future in which polyethylene becomes one of the defining archaeological witnesses of our era.

Just as contemporary societies interpret past civilizations through surviving material layers, she proposes that future generations may one day read the history of our own time through these artificial strata.

In this sense, Futuristic Fresco is presented as a speculative artefact arriving from the future — a trace of an epoch that has left its self-portrait upon the surface of the Earth.

Lia Bagrationi, 2026.