Artist’s book. Untitled, 2025, Collage with photocopied paper and plastic bags from potato chips , 16.5 x 12 cm.
Nutritional Futurama is a series of artist’s books created in collage. The work undertakes a critical recovery of «food» consumer objects, appropriating and working with widely circulated junk food packaging to use it as raw material for the collages.
Throughout the 20th century, food, like never before, became part of the industrial machinery that, ostensibly, aims to facilitate everyday life with ready-to-eat meals. However, this situation becomes macabre when one considers that products are being sold that, in the long run, prove toxic, addictive, lack nutritional value, and are marketed with the health of a public that trusts the legitimacy of products authorized on the market.
This series of books, collaged on the plastic of potato chip packaging, can be seen as a portrait of a society that devours harmful ingredients, sold embellished by shiny and attractive packaging, damaging health and the environment in the same breath. Poison for the body and poison for nature through the generation of non-degradable plastics and packaging, coupled with the constant use of ingredients like glutamate, which intensifies flavors at the cost of causing addiction.
«This system has become an unstoppable device that promotes «solutions» and sells the convenience of having everything ready and resolved in just a few minutes to save time, through ironic and perverse advertising. Because, to what extent do we save time in the kitchen by buying pre-made food, when we then lose years of life due to diseases associated with the frequent use of these products, such as obesity, cholesterol, or blood sugar?»
