Isabella Pers and Nada Prlja on Social and Environmental Crises in Milan

The A29 Project Room in Milan hosts a dual exhibition featuring Isabella Pers and Nada Prlja, both addressing social, political, and environmental crises exacerbated by consumerism. Pers (born 1963, Palmanova) employs photography, installations, and drawings to critique the anthropocentric system's devastating impact on the planet. Her recent work focuses on the 'memory' of water and plants, exploring symbiotic human interaction with these elements. She documents climate change by juxtaposing geographically distant regions united by rising waters, such as Pacific Ocean atolls and Italy's Vaia storm, which destroyed hectares of forests. Prlja (born 1971, Sarajevo) reflects on inequality, injustice, nationalism, human rights, tragedies, and natural disasters. Her installation 'Disaster Diary II' extends a project begun in 2004, using newspaper prints collected from the London Underground, over which she paints dates of natural catastrophes. Prlja extensively recycles materials, enriching her works with layered meanings; 'Disaster Diary II' presents a chronology of cataclysms from 2004 to 2021.