Christopher Gage Arotsky
MFA ’26 Film/Video
Recent research suggests the average human consumes about five grams of microplastics each week, roughly the equivalent of a credit card. Microplastics have been found in our blood, our organs, and deep within our reproductive systems. This work explores plastic as both material and condition, something that shapes our external world while quietly inhabiting the body.
I work with projection, latex, PVC, and water to create installations featuring unstable, shifting forms that move between the bodily and the synthetic, the familiar and the uncanny. Images distort, double, and slowly collapse over time, aiming to emphasize transformation, degradation, and inheritance.
The work seeks to explore what it means to live in a world where the artificial is no longer outside us, but absorbed, inherited, and inseparable from the body.
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Christopher Gage Arotsky is a filmmaker and time-based installation artist from the Bronx, New York. His material-driven practice transforms everyday objects into uncanny encounters, drawing from cinematic narrative structures to explore environmental contamination and inherited futures.
