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FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE
DI FOTOGRAFIA E ARTE
MONOPOLI
08/08–16/11 2025​
GREGG SEGAL
7 Days of Garbage​​
Per sottolineare la crisi dei consumi ed enfatizzare la responsabilità condivisa dei rifiuti generati, l’artista ha chiesto a familiari, amici, vicini e altri conoscenti di conservare la propria spazzatura per una settimana e poi sdraiarsi al suo interno per essere fotografati. Le ambientazioni sono state create nel cortile dell’artista ad Altadena, in California: acqua, sabbia, neve, foresta; nessuna sfera della nostra casa collettiva è al sicuro dalla spazzatura. Questi ritratti sono visti come un’archeologia istantanea, che preserva l’eredità della cultura del consumo in cui le persone sono al contempo vittime e carnefici, riempiendo i propri nidi di rifiuti.
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Gregg Segal ha studiato fotografia e cinema al California Institute of the Arts (BFA), scrittura drammatica alla New York University (MFA) e educazione alla University of Southern California (MA). La fotografia di Segal è stata riconosciuta da American Photography, Communication Arts, PDN, Investigative Reporters and Editors, The New York Press Club, Society of Publication Designers, Lens Culture e Magnum Photography Awards. Mostre recenti includono The Meal al Dom Museum di Vienna, In Feast or Famine al Palo Alto Art Center, Daily Bread al The Seaport di New York, l'l’n Plain Site Photography Festival di Oakland e la BBA Photography Prize Exhibition al Kühlhaus di Berlino.
To highlight the crisis of consumption and emphasize the shared responsibility of the waste generated, the artist asked family, friends, neighbors, and other acquaintances to save their trash for a week and then lie down to be photographed in it. The settings were created in the artist’s backyard in Altadena, California—water, sand, snow, forest—highlighting that no sphere of the collective home is safe from garbage. These portraits are seen as instant archaeology, preserving the legacy of a consumer culture in which people are simultaneously victims and perpetrators, feathering their nests with waste.
Gregg Segal studied photography and film at California Institute of the Arts (BFA) dramatic writing at New York University (MFA) and education at The University of Southern California (MA). Segal’s photography has been recognized by American Photography, Communication Arts, PDN, Investigative Reporters and Editors, The New York Press Club, the Society of Publication Designers, Lens Culture, and the Magnum Photography Awards. Recent exhibitions include “The Meal” at the Dom Museum in Vienna, “In Feast or Famine” at the Palo Alto Art Center, “Daily Bread” at The Seaport in New York, the “In Plain Site” Photography Festival in Oakland, and the BBA Photography Prize Exhibition at Kühlhaus Berlin.