in union. the new exhibition trains his satirical lens on a nation in search of its modern identity. and the continual search for a sustainable materials one swiss bag manufacturer has come up with a way to accessorize with fibers from the banana plant. and they an artist who is says it took him some time to get away from the traditional western ideas of what sculpture should be made of now a new exhibition of his work at the house. takes us through all his material faces his large scale installations made from discarded screw caps from liquor bottles allude to the legacy of colonialism and to rampant consumerism and they're seen differently in every museum in habit. and transforms every day materials into striking works that incorporate aspects of.

and tapestries even being compared to the paintings. believes in the power of to transform. i know consciously when i hope that their work with her. showing the world. for cross is on the work and want to write those to people i don't have control over her and but i hope something good. ok from earlier when people see my work they do communicate proof. me how this will all spirito belief that. siri has many fans who are drawn to the beauty of his works but their appeal is more than just a static his use of recycled african materials is an expiration of global

consumerism and draws attention to the way that people in some parts of the world have to reuse materials out of necessity. siri has developed new works on a dress the museum's controversial past the house the concert was built in the nazi era and a monumental neoclassical style. the exhibition continues until july twenty seventh and will move to match half of the arab museum of modern art in doha in the old some. well over to london now where on the eve of a possible breck said an exhibition at the national portrait gallery takes a bittersweet look at the contentious issue of british identity martin parr's

photographs are by turns which he surprising dark and even ingenious and he captures the very essence of britishness with all its rites and rituals with a satirical eye and great affection. many realities under one flag the everyday lives of britons photos the color cold the seams and quirks of british identity only human is the title of the exhibition by british for the talker feel legend martin par past compared to others have long been the main focus of his work i guess i love and hate of reading at the same time and there's certain i call them certain things that don't change you know things like a country right they try not to change some things do change so i'm interested in things that change with these absurd elements the trying to capture the essence of britishness and don't ask me what to do that's why i do the pictures that's how i took my self to the soul of the not the words. it's that love hate relationship

together with powers all right humor that reads oh well i think i learned that either on the is is a very big part of british identity and maybe a bit of the south. he's going to get sense of humor and he gets people in amusing situations all classes of society i think is where. the exhibition includes works from the past twenty years as well as a chapter that explores britain in the age of brecht's it for it visited rex it's here hotspots capturing patrick has him in all its forms one of powers talents is a knack for getting close to his subjects you have to just do a lot and then you have to have some empathy and have to go in the guts of the subject and and keep shooting. with only human martin parr makes the ordinary bloke extraordinary. extraordinary

indeed and i'm joined by my colleague melissa holroyd from the culture thanks for it for being. a lot of the love hate thing going on there has exacerbated that for martin park theme of british identity has always been a part of parts photographic work but the brakes it gives it a whole new context a few years ago some of the images he would have made would have been much more innocent if we can maybe have a look at a couple of them but with the brags that looming all maybe not it's not. even a whole new meaning a big mystery cause work is also a very very playful and many brits as you can probably imagine are very wary at the moment we're at the moment yeah but if you're extending his playfulness and his ability to make the viewer think make only human a very timely exhibition that he's done

a couple of unusual things for him in this in this exhibition is thrown in a couple of celebrities for instance yes so he's famous for taking photos of ordinary people doing ordinary seeing you things usually recreational things bought at only human we have some celebrities in the celebrity room he is one of vivienne westwood and he is one i done family done in the toilet and he is one of the perry family this is something we often see in pa's work his use of strong colors against a neutral backdrop or vice versa. and a bit too much there yeah but you know it's very interesting because one of the striking things about his work is this use of color he has a long history working with it tell us a bit about you know he was one of the first the top first noncommercial photographers to work in color for a long time to use photographers only works in black and white and also the level

to which documents the ordinary and the monday seems to have no limits to me takes photos of the backs of people's necks he takes photo. teacups he takes there are thousands of photos that he's taken of people on the telephone nothing is too small too small and i've actually also heard that he's a he's an almost obsessive collector of a lot of crazy things you collect a lot of stuff he's not only interested in his own photos but is also interested in the role that photography has in the wider society. in the exhibition only human he also celebrates the kitsch world of self portraits and here he's the star of each and every single picture very sedate her hands and it's very very funny he looks he looks propped up in a lot of the pitches it's the knitting and other is so much humor in his work but there's always this easy balance between comedy and tragedy and it's it's almost

infectious this keen observance of his yeah it's very infectious once you start looking at his pitches you start seeing this these human and the world around you yet you start seeing the world as in the same way that martin. ok melissa holroyd thanks for bringing us that story that's martin parr at the national portrait gallery with only human thanks very much for bringing us that and lots of fun stuff . well there was a time when certain british politicians tried to sell the idea of brecht's it to their voters with what they called a brussels ban on bended bananas one of the most persistent myths of regulation pretty soon there won't need to worry much about that but rather might worry there were missing out on the easy trade of sustainable banana fabric which is a new idea from switzerland that's already bearing fruit. bags made from bananas. they're actually made from banana tanks fabric produced using fibers of the back of

banana plant the fibers aren't derived from the fruit itself but from the stocks banana tex was developed by the question. brand they've already received a design prize for their work from a swiss magazine. question is based here in zurich switzerland in recent years its founders who include christiane cagy and show no doubt have experimented with a variety of sustainable materials. on phones were. we started off with cotton and spent a couple of years developing an organic cotton fabric. at the same time we experimented with linen hemp and bamboo and in the process we stumbled upon banana fiber so for me he right away we were impressed by its attention and the sort of position of. also known as manilla hemp is native to the philippines and has been

used to make items such as rope and fishing nets there since the nineteenth century . the plant grows wild in the jungle not on plantations it doesn't require any irrigation fertilizer or pesticides the fibers are dried nearby and are later turned into paper. when you twine the banana fibers right away and turn them in to yon and then we've them it produces a really irregular crop but through this intermediary step this paper we can even it out. at a specialist leaving mill in taiwan the paper is turned into fabric the paper is cut into thin strips that are processed into thread and then. the resulting fabric makes its way to neighboring china where the bags are manufactured in working conditions that stand. the bags design also plays a decisive role the details are well thought out the style is casual and functional

. the collection is being sold in some two hundred stores worldwide a bag. made from banana fiber cost around two hundred twenty euros the model range is limited at present the more designs are in the works. it gave me the course of its developments we also discovered that lots of companies were interested in trying it out. dr who we were a bit surprised by the demand and by the fact that need for sustainable materials is so great across many industries hard to store into a feeling the stream circles east. this was label creates urban bags for environmentally conscious transmitters and if their bags ever go out of style they can always just compost them. easy peasy well that's all for this edition of arts and culture but don't forget that you can always find more culture on our

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