La Vispera is a collective between visual artist Kelly Jimenez and Alejandro Franco, their work is dynamic and it can be found in the form of installation, stop motion animation, set design, lately they have been fully focused on the making of Stained glass windows made out of single used plastic.
In their individual practice they always use found materials that are usually resting out of purpose. Due to their affinity and desire to create works that approach the ecological crisis , they embarked on a journey of making a project to raised awareness on the careless use of single-use plastic, they don’t normally use plastic because it’s a material that evokes the aspects that are wrong about us humans, plastic bags are one way we are depleting our oil supply, 8% - 10% of our oil supply goes to making of plastic, even though its already out of control petrochemical companies produce thousands of single used plastic from fossil fuels creating a material that takes many years to decompose flooding our lives and oceans.
Three years ago they migrated to St Louis, MO with just a few of their possessions, without any studio equipment or art supplies, they started to notice that packaging material of all sorts was abundant and that it was going in the garbage in the prime of its life. they decided to give this new significance to something so transient and problematic.
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Associated Artist of Pittsburgh